Leveraging national surveys, big-data advances and machine learning, Cornell researchers have piloted a new approach to ...

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 ...

Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved. Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish ...

Afrobarometer surveys in the 2000s and 2010s tracked the same downward trends in poverty rates in Africa as measured by the proportions of people who tell interviewers that they go without a ...

argues that broadening people’s access to jobs and public services represents one of Africa’s best prospects for accelerating poverty reduction and maps out a framework that can help economies remove ...