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Poverty Reduction
Climate change

Engulfed by the lake

Fishermen on Zambia’s Lake Kariba are drowning in growing numbers

Migration

Education as a central driver

Researchers analyse the reasons why people emigrate or flee

Refugee policy

More money better spent

Researchers are calling for more money for refugee assistance and a more efficient use of funds

Refugees

Earning a living with pottery

To escape poverty, a young refugee started to sell self-made pottery in Uganda and succeeded

Infrastructure

Policy recommendations

Rural revitalisation is essential for transforming rural areas, not only in Africa

Rural development

Rurbanomics

Revitalising rural areas means improving infrastructure and boosting people’s opportunities

Poverty

Urban food insecurity

Urban hunger is an under-rated problem, for example in Nairobi

Municipal governance

Farming in the metropolis

Low-income Nairobians mitigate hunger and malnutrition by growing their own food

Economics

Nobel prize's focus on poverty is welcome, but incomplete

Micro level evidence is insufficient for rising to macro level challenges

Tanzania

Praising the social market economy

Faith leaders in Tanzania do not want to see economy leaving anyone behind

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