World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that reducing poverty and supporting economic development in Africa will be his top priority, along with modernizing the bank’s cumbersome ...

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Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

New analysis published today shows that 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have accelerated progress in the last three years on reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and 16 are on track to ...

* Study says African poverty falling faster than thought * Challenges view that poor being left behind By Ed Cropley, African Investment Correspondent JOHANNESBURG, March 4 (Reuters) - Africans are ...

Seeing buses full of tourists looking for a glimpse of South African poverty, squatter camp resident Lawrence Rolomana decided to try to earn a share of the cash they were spending. Bored and jobless, ...

Africa’s paradox is obscene. A continent endowed with natural resources worth trillions of dollars remains ensnared in poverty.From sprawling communal lands to glittering diamond fields, Africans are ...