Despite the continent’s vast natural resources, many African countries remain among the poorest in the world. According to ...

GDP per capita adjusted for relative purchasing power gives us an idea, albeit an imperfect one. Would you rather be rich in a poor country or poor in a rich one? Measuring the wealth of nations is ...

The current model also doesn’t work for rich-world voters. By incentivizing inflows, the U.S. financial sector gets the clout to distort government priorities. Encouraging the purchase of U.S. assets, ...

Updated data needed to see, keep responding to poorest places, head of Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative says ...

Source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook April 2024. Values are expressed in current international dollars, reflecting the corresponding exchange rates and PPP adjustments.

Kenya’s focus on foods and beverages is partly to blame for the lack of competitiveness of the country’s manufactured goods on the global market. The Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) describes ...

My analysis suggests the combined impact of the current and planned measures may entail a “ green squeeze ”, costing ...

Headlines focused on the US, Japan, and several European countries collectively contributing an additional $11 billion to the World Bank’s lending capacity, and how that fell far short of the ...

Whether clearing trash washing up on beaches or replacing plastic products with eco-friendly alternatives, developing ...

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis // How the US minimum wage compares to other countries. For almost 15 years, the U.S. federal ...