Nigeria needs a radical shift in its economic policy approach. Macroeconomic stability won’t automatically create jobs and alleviate poverty.
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The absence of strong accountability turns anti-poverty programmes into symbolic gestures rather than vehicles of real change in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has introduced far-reaching economic reforms. They are unlikely to improve the living conditions of Nigerians in 2025.
About 1 in 9 Americans are facing poverty today. But more than half of the people residing in the US will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
Canada’s official poverty measure only focuses on income and ignores other important factors, meaning there are millions of Canadians living in poverty that are ignored by the measure.
The coming copper boom presents Zambia with an extraordinary opportunity – not only to enable mining profits, but to power inclusive growth.
An unfunded expansion of the social transfer system could lead to even worse economic outcomes — the medicine should not be worse than the disease.
The Ajaokuta steel plant stands unused after 40 years of construction and US$8 billion in investment.
Our new research suggests that while a break up, on average, reduces men’s disposable household income by 5%, on average women’s household income decreases by almost 30%.
Boosting income support payments beyond their current austere levels remains a crucial pillar of policy for governments genuinely committed to reducing persistent disadvantage.
A vicious cycle of limited opportunity and poor health.
Nigeria needs more industrial production, foreign and domestic investment, not just handouts.
The federal budget proposed several measures aimed at reducing poverty. But escaping poverty is extremely difficult and can’t be addressed by quick fixes.
With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.
Remittances to countries like Mexico, Pakistan and Vietnam are keeping pace with 2019’s record levels or in some cases rising, despite spring forecasts of a 20% decline.
Bappenas conducted a simulation to predict how COVID-19 will impact poverty in Indonesia. Without intervention, the pandemic will drag at least 3.6 million Indonesians into poverty by the end of 2020.
Boris Johnson claimed in a BBC interview that child poverty was going down. An expert on child poverty looked at the data.
Poverty leaves people feeling unable to take responsibility for their future – but community programmes can empower young people to take control.
Is Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s claim that the rate of poverty in rural Indonesia has declined at twice the poverty rates of cities correct?
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