The unemployed continue to outweigh the employed and those living in abject poverty ... down to rural communities and local small businesses, they are counter intuitive to South Africa’s agenda ...

James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., has one central focus: fighting poverty in rural counties. It’s been a longtime focus of Clyburn, 84, who is back on the committee after nearly two decades serving in ...

Ask Americans what parts of the country are the most poverty-stricken and they will probably talk about cities like Cleveland, Baltimore, and St. Louis. They aren’t likely to mention rural areas in ...

If President Cyril Ramaphosa wants one standout policy success to help address many of South Africa’s ills ... it was still beset by poverty, unemployment and inequality. He highlighted the ...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, disability data recently collected through regular household surveys in Botswana, Gabon, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland ... part of publications ...

Based on that, the SBI report says the poverty ratio in rural areas declined to 4.86% in the period (i.e. 4.86% of rural Indians are below the poverty line), down from 25.7% in 2011-12, whereas in ...

These are the main findings: National poverty has stagnated while urban poverty is alarmingly on the rise. In 2022, 75.2% of the national population was poor: 79.9% in rural and 55.5% in urban areas.