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Homelessness is a serious aspect of extreme poverty, which economists have investigated scarsely.
If Nigeria’s poor keep having many babies, the country is unlikely to ever beat poverty. Nigeria boasts the largest economy in Africa and the 27th largest globally, yet ranks as low as 139th on GDP per capita and has half of its population living in poverty. The impressive...
On his famous 1941 speech that went down in history as the Four Freedom speech, the then President of the United States of America Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the world to come should have been built upon four fundamental freedoms, among which he included Freedom from want. ...
Who is poor? How can policymakers identify households that are poor? This pair of questions, intersecting yet separate, have plagued academics, policymakers and civil society members around the world.
Since about 2014, and especially since 2016, Brazil has been experiencing an intense social, economic and political crisis. At the beginning of 2018, there were nearly 14 million unemployed individuals, or nearly double the number of four years earlier, whilst the share of informal employees and self-employed...
Sub-Saharan Africa is undoubtedly the most important frontier for climate change mitigation and adaptation. More than 620 million people, two-thirds of the population, lack access to electricity. Electrifying sub-Saharan Africa using existing energy mix jeopardizes the goal of limiting warming below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels reiterated in the Paris...
South Sudan became independent on 9th July 2011, after decades of civil war against the North. The world’s youngest nation almost represents a perfect textbook example of a small isolated economy.
Relations between China and Africa have experienced significant momentum in economic development over the last decade. Although China’s interaction with African countries covers a wide range of arenas, from political and economic to military-related, much of China’s engagement with Africa is centred on economic activities through a mix of increased...
