Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help economies remove ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...