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What causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle

In sub-Saharan Africa, especially in low-income countries, internal migration remains the most prevalent migration pattern. Migration is often the chosen route for people seeking to escape poverty.
The Nation Newspaper

TC 2025: African countries must unite to fight energy poverty, says Lokpobiri

To boost energy access and drive economic prosperity in Africa, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil), Senator Heineken Lokpobiri has urged African nations to forge a united front in the ...
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Extreme Poverty Becoming More Concentrated in Conflict Countries, Warns World Bank

Extreme poverty is increasingly concentrated in economies that have been blighted by armed conflict, which has become more common over the course of this century, the World Bank said Friday. In a ...
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African Development Bank delivers on a decade of transformative commitments to reduce poverty

For the past five decades, the African Development BankGroup ( <a href="http://www.AfDB.org" id="92e24f22-1118-343a-a3a9-e2fe73b79972"> www.AfDB.org </a> ) has been ...
International Monetary Fund

Rural Poverty in Developing Countries

Rural poverty accounts for nearly 63 percent of poverty worldwide, reaching 90 percent in some countries like Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this ...
The Africa Report

‘Few African countries depend on aid – many are drowning in debt,’ says Nobel laureate

Esther Duflo, the MIT professor and economist known for pioneering impact evaluation and a key figure in the fight against poverty, does not mince her words. As development aid faces a deep crisis, ...
Reuters

U.N. sees poverty hope in African uptake of child welfare payments

GENEVA (Reuters) - The spread of state welfare for children around Africa has the potential to make a major dent in global poverty, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Children account for the ...
The Conversation

Has finance for green industry had an impact in Africa? What’s happened in 41 countries over 20 years

Associate Professor of Public Economics, Chair in Municipal Finance within the Department of Economics, and Head of the Public Policy Hub at the University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria The ...
The Conversation

What causes inequality in African countries? New book traces a vicious cycle

UCT Chair in Poverty and Inequality Research; Director of ARUA's African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Resaearch with the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit., University of ...