Recently, my family hopped on the United Airlines Boeing 747 from Washington, DC, heading out to Lagos to celebrate my wife’s landmark birthday. This was the second time in 15 years that my three boys ...

"Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction." In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

The impoverished families of Sub-Saharan Africa face many problems: poor governance, sluggish economies scarce in good jobs, frail civil society, and in some cases the specter of violent conflict. But ...

Unless Africa tames corruption, new aid efforts will fail. Fresh help for Africa is on the way. When evangelicals joined U2’s Bono this past summer in lobbying the political leaders of the world’s ...

A deadly car crash in Nigeria involving former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two minibus accidents in South ...

A new World Bank report has revealed that Africa could play host to 87 percent of the world’s extremely poor population by 2030, an increase from the current 60 percent, if no significant reforms were ...

A brochure for an African tour has sparked a debate about a well-known international aid program and how Westerners view the poor, notes a new post in Give and Take, the Chronicle’s roundup of the ...

* Poor nations need $267 bln/year on climate-Africa * $200 billion/yr to curb emissions, $67 bln to adapt * Figures far above aid by recession-hit developed nations By Alister Doyle, Environment ...