South Africa’s unemployment rate stands at a staggering 33.5%, one of the highest in the world. Coupled with an alarming ...
South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic ...
South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...
This report provides information about poverty in Africa. The continent has the highest share of people living in poverty globally. First, it shows Africa's poverty, inequality, and wealth ...
It may shock many to learn that more than 13 million people in South Africa (roughly 25%) live below the food poverty line of R27 a day. This is how much an individual needs to get enough food to ...
Now 27, she grew up in a poor township in South Africa's Eastern Cape province and ... to eradicate period poverty." She now delivers sanitary pads to hundreds of schools in the Eastern Cape.
A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...