Tag: Poverty

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has warned that a total of 514 million people in Africa are at risk of falling into extreme poverty if the impact of the ...

China’s President, Xi Jinping has declared “complete victory” in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. The ...

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has had severe strains on the global economy which is now projected to contract by 4.4% this year. Whist the virus has claimed several ...

Out of 189 countries globally and 46 sub-Saharan Countries, Ghana places 138th and 13th respectively in the new human development Index for 2020. This new HDI score of 0.611 is ...

With about 16 more days left to close 2020, the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers, showing no signs of waning, and a resurgence has already evolved in many ...

With global cases of the COVID-19 infection rate increasing in most developed economies in Europe, UK and the Americas, least developed countries (LDC’s) have so far remained the least scathed ...

The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) in collaboration with the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), and the EU has launched a diagnostic ...

The world economy has been greatly wounded by the Covid-19 pandemic. The severest of the impact has been on the poor and vulnerable across the world. Health wise, global efforts ...

A former Chief Executive Officer of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transport Company Limited (BOST), Kwame Awuah-Darko has said that, the challenge that Ghanaians are facing is “poverty.” In an ...

A report released by the Ghana Statistical Service highlighting the multi dimensions of poverty in Ghana indicates that families headed by men are poorer than families headed by women in ...