Corruption in land management hits the poorest people the hardest, creating situations that deny people's rights and damage livelihoods. Land is a vital resource that sustains livelihoods across ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 99/51 "Adjustment and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa ... notably poor weather conditions and a deterioration in the terms of trade, have led to some ...

Fortunately, policy in this area evolved in ... and exports in that region. Another factor that inhibits private investment and growth in sub-Saharan Africa—by increasing the cost of investing in ...

Electricity access is a persistent issue across Africa, particularly in the sub-Saharan region that is home to most of the ...

Despite rapid growth in many African economies over the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world’s poorest region. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a third of the population ...

Improving the delivery of public goods and services, particularly in vulnerable areas, is key to ... distress as of June 2023. Sub-Saharan Africa’s growth has delivered poor job creation and slow ...

The 2023 data is based on interviews with nearly 146 000 adults in 142 countries and areas. Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the ...

Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images The pandemic is exacerbating a decline of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. To combat the ... and often exacerbated by the poor, sometimes brutal governance ...

It is possible for Sub-Saharan Africa’s poor to get access to affordable electricity and ... for millions of people in Sub-Saharan Africa who need it most, and have the region’s cash-strapped power ...

According to the latest UNICEF study on child marriage, Latin America is second only to sub-Saharan Africa as the region of the world ... divide between rich and poor: early marriage is rare ...

Decades of caste discrimination have contributed to India having higher levels of child stunting rates than across Sub-Saharan Africa, new research has revealed. The two regions together are home ...

The two regions together are ... In 2021, the World Bank reported, “Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia [including India] account for over 85% of the global poor,” underscoring similar ...