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 some countries like Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this ...

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 ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, two out of every three people are without access to electricity, and it is this energy poverty that is handicapping the ... Looking also at the lack of access in rural and urban ...

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.