The world has seen extraordinary social and economic progress over the past three decades. Yet, most people are dissatisfied with their lives: 60 per cent of the world’s population are struggling and ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a ...

Investing more in agriculture, especially with external financing, offers the biggest gains in raising incomes and reducing ...

The World Bank has raised a fresh concern over the rising poverty in Nigeria, saying that a staggering 75.5 per cent of rural dwellers live below the poverty line.The World Bank stated this in its ...

The Executive Director of Cleft and Facial Deformity Foundation (CFDF), Dr. Seidu Bello, has called for public support towards the completion of the proposed ...

According to the World Bank, Nigeria accounts for 19 per cent of the share of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa, followed by Congo, Ethiopia and Sudan with 14 per cent, nine per cent and six per cent, ...

The World Bank says the federal government’s safety nets to the poor could suffer due to the oil price decline. The World ...

Pope Francis blessed all from the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica — “Urbi et Orbi” (To the city [Rome] and to the world). “On this day, I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our ...

The IMF report on Africa’s economy has identified the ten poorest countries in Africa which have the lowest gross domestic ...

In Eastern Europe, where some RC leaders criticised the Pope’s openness to LGBT and other groups, the Polish bishops’ ...

President Donald Trump poses an urgent threat to basic rights. So does the poverty that has flourished since long before ...