Thousands of people protesting price hikes in poverty-plagued Malawi marched to the parliament building Tuesday in the ...
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 ...
Tropical Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi, unleashing six months of rain in six days. Freddy was the largest and longest-lasting ...
Life is difficult for children in Malawi: 500,000 children have lost one or both parents to HIV and AIDS. They have limited access to health and nutrition services. There is an acute shortage of ...
The research focused on Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda—agricultural nations with high poverty rates where many development agencies are working, but with only a rough idea of where the poorest ...
Poverty in Lao PDR declined from 33.5% to 23.2% in the last decade lifting half a million people out of poverty. The country has met the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of halving extreme ...
The lack of legitimacy is also evident, as the government is not recognized by its citizens or the international community.
The force will have to examine the issue of poverty as many parents take ... farmers are not given alternative crops. In Malawi, the question in people's minds is: what else will they grow that ...
Malawi stands at a crossroads. The imminent withdrawal of USAID support, which will cost 5,000 jobs, is being framed as a ...
By combining the precision of asset-based poverty indexes with the practicality of consumption-based poverty lines, Cornell researchers have piloted a new machine-learning model to identify areas of ...