One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is ...

The Cornell team's new "structural poverty" estimates seek to address that gap, translating abundant Earth observations into more actionable terms for policymakers. Focused on four southern and ...

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to millions ...

Can it be true: a researcher specialising in poverty elected to the Young Academy of Sweden? What about a social scientist who is also an expert in computer science, straddling the boundary between ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) presents a major opportunity for African countries to bring 30 million people out of extreme poverty and to raise the incomes of 68 million others who ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Perhaps for most in the developed world, the image of African poverty is a teeming ...

This guest blog was written by ONE Youth Ambassador Veerle Blokhuis. The coronavirus has brought about a lot of change in the world. The various measures deployed worldwide to combat the pandemic have ...

Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...