Repeated shocks have eroded households’ assets and purchasing power, increasing the risk of more people falling into poverty. In 2022 ... Moreover, the project enabled the launch of Somalia’s first ...

and property taxes—the presentation will challenge conventional wisdom and demonstrate how countries can harness data analytics to better assess the efficiency and distributional consequences of tax ...

Figuring out how to get things done is a major constraint to African development The post on African elites’ lack of ambition ...

Investing more in agriculture, especially with external financing, offers the biggest gains in raising incomes and reducing ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

The World Bank acknowledges problems in using HCES 2022-23 data for poverty and inequality measurements, given the substantial changes it underwent, but it has still used it. This is strange.

It is unavailable for children younger than 15 who are not related to the householder, people living in institutional group quarters and people living in college dormitories or military barracks. Due ...

There were 92,690 people in Malta who were at risk of poverty in 2024, according to national data released on Monday. The data, extracted from the annual European Statistics on Income and Living ...

This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) reviews the first Annual Progress Report (APR) on Somalia’s Ninth National Development Plan (NDP9).1 NDP9 is a nationally owned and comprehensive strategy for ...

Drawing on the data from PSA's newly released 2024 Functional Literacy, Education, and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) and the 2023 poverty incidence among families, Philstar.com's analysis indicates ...

Instability, enforcement gaps and high poverty levels in the Horn combine to enable rampant cheetah trafficking across East African borders. Baby cheetahs are sold in Somalia for about US$78. The ...