The current population of this impoverished country is 102 million, but this is projected to increase by more than 400% by ...

In 1996 the IMF and the World Bank launched an initiative aimed at reducing the debt burden for some 41 heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC), whose total debts amount to about 10% of the Third World ...

s Twenty Most Productive Nations. Eighteen of the poorest countries by GDP per capita are in Africa. That is not surprising given the famine and war that have racked the continent for the better ...

The most optimistic scenario shows about 330 million poor in 2012, up from about 280 million in 1990 ... The picture on African inequality is complex. Seven of the 10 most unequal countries in the ...

COP29 sparked intense debates over climate finance. Developing nations have criticised pledges from wealthy countries as a ...

Several massive projects worth billions are being drafted or constructed in Africa to cater for the continent's growing ...

South Sudan is the world's newest country and one of the the poorest states on earth. Political instability has sparked civil ...

Other countries with the highest burdens of disease due to landscape fires, including wildfires, were China, Indonesia and ...

In an Africa plagued by poverty and unemployment, many dream of a better future, and some don't hesitate to invest their life savings in QNET's business, in the hope of one day escaping the grip of ...