The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 47 developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

Rural poverty accounts for nearly 63 percent of poverty worldwide, reaching 90 percent in China and Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this pattern are seen ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa ... poverty assessments — provides visibility to a group often neglected in socio-economic analysis. This potentially also helps countries develop policies in support of persons ...

Sub-Saharan Africa must increase economic growth to reduce poverty and improve living standards ... education are not diverted to other uses and that schools and hospitals in rural areas get their ...

The World Bank on Monday lowered its 2016 sub-Saharan African growth forecast ... year would be driven by economic powerhouses South Africa, Nigeria and Angola as commodity prices stabilise.