In a new documentary about Bob Geldof, the rock musician who organized the Live Aid concerts in 1985 and helped put together last year’s Live 8 event, he says that despite Africa’s deep-rooted poverty ...

One of the biggest challenges in providing relief to people living in poverty is locating them. The availability of accurate and reliable information on the location of impoverished zones is ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) has the 5th highest rate of poverty in the world, with nearly 70% of the country’s people living in extreme poverty. The World Bank’s first-ever Poverty Assessment ...

Massimiliano Tani receives funding from Australian Research Council (unrelated to this article). Adrino Mazenda and Catherine Althaus do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...