The streets of Hillbrow, a tough downtown Johannesburg district more famous for its hijacked buildings, poverty and raging ...

The streets of Hillbrow, a tough downtown Johannesburg district more famous for its hijacked buildings, poverty and crime, ...

The eight internationally-declared goals, on reducing poverty and improving life chances in developing countries, were set in 2000 for achievement by 2015. But the UN says that halfway to the deadline ...

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 ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce poverty and inequality in South Africa.

South Africa's GDP growth has averaged 0.8% per year since 2012, a rate the National Treasury has said is insufficient to reduce high levels of unemployment and poverty. One measure of the unequal ...

As the world commemorates the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - an observance celebrated annually across the world on October 17th – it is deeply concerning that Africa has the ...

The World Bank estimates that 35% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa live in extreme poverty. According to the lender, 38 out of 48 countries in the region were designated as fragile, with most ...

27 December 2013 PRETORIA - Poverty and inequality still blight much of the developing world, especially Africa, and breed other social ills, including crime and social instability. But considerable ...

Across 110 countries, out of 6.1 billion people, nearly 1.1 billion people suffer from extreme poverty. Among the 1.1 billion poor people, almost 534 million are from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The UN Says a Quarter of the World's Children Under 5 Have Severe Food Poverty. Many Are in Africa KALTUNGO, Nigeria (AP) — The 9-month-old twins cried nonstop and tugged at their mother ...