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 ...

Poverty in a Rising Africa, the first of two upcoming reports on poverty in Africa ... Poverty reduction has been slowest in fragile countries, the report notes, and rural areas remain much poorer, ...

Climate change is exacerbating hunger and poverty in rural KwaZulu-Natal villages. Communities are pulling together with ...

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 ...

As poverty in rural Liberia rises a growing number of children are being forced out of school ... A recent survey conducted in five counties by Front Page Africa/New Narratives found that 9 out of 10 ...

COMMON WISDOM #15: Non-farm enterprises in rural Africa are often operated due to economic necessity and survival. Consequently they tend to have low-productivity levels, do not create many jobs, and ...

In Malawi, one aid group seeks to upend ideas about international assistance by giving individuals a one-time cash payment, ...

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125 (4), 1577–1625. Gordon, A. & Craig, C. (2001) Rural non-farm activities and poverty alleviation in sub-Saharan Africa. Social and economic development department.

enhancing their impact on rural development, poverty reduction, climate resilience and economic growth across Africa,” Lario ...

Food shortages in rural areas were rampant in a country that already had one of the highest rates of malnutrition and stunted children in sub-Saharan Africa. “How many people ate an egg in the ...

Anegue, J. (2025) Do Mobile Payments Foster Banking Access in Rural Areas in Cameroon?. Open Access Library Journal, 12, 1-17. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1113239 .

Achieving gender equality and empowering women is not only the right thing to do but is a critical ingredient in the fight against extreme poverty ... and rural women have been leading global ...