SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

In Africa, rural poverty and hunger are grim companions and often overlap with agricultural employment. Africa is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and a significant proportion ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

Poverty remains a serious problem in Africa, and Nigeria is not an exception. Although the country is home to both rural and urban poverty, rural poverty contributes a greater percentage to the total ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Poverty in South Africa remains a significant and persistent challenge despite efforts and progress in decreasing it over the last two decades. This was revealed in the latest report by Statistics ...

This Economic Issue is based on IMF Working Paper 00/78 "Rural Poverty in Developing Countries: Issues and Policies." Citations for the research referred to in this shortened version are provided in ...