Drawing on the latest evidence, a new World Bank report, Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Africa, revisits the challenges and opportunities to tackle poverty in the region Despite significant ...

Gregory Wrightstone, a member of the CO2 Coalition, is a geologist and the author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know.” Obama-era policies that favor so-called ...

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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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. O’Plerou Denis Grebet taught himself how to ...

Many young Nigerians, indeed Africans, are possibly looking forward to getting a university degree, getting a job and rising to the top fast (contribution or no contribution), building a house or ...

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Urbanization is the single-most important transformation taking place on the African continent, with more than 450 million new urban dwellers expected by 2040 Strong commitment from African ...

When Ivorian artist O’Plerou Denis Grebet was looking for free stock images of Africa for a project, he only came across negative images of disease and poverty. “I noticed that media and most articles ...