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Unemployment crisis will ravage the continent if it doesn’t opt for market-based development, according to report by Tony Blair’s Institute In 2014, there was a stampede as 20,000 people tried to apply
Harare – Zimbabwe has been ranked among the most fragile states in the world - just a few weeks after President Robert Mugabe, 93, insisted that his country was the "most highly developed country in Africa
India has among the lowest female labor force participation rates (LFPRs) in the world. In particular, low female LFPR is a drag on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and an obstacle towards reaching
According to the United Nations, India's population had grown to 1.33 billion in 2016 Chinese people cheering on their country’s ascent sometimes comfort themselves with the idea that Asia’s other
<p>Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development has begun in earnest. The 2017 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's unemployment rate increased to 34 percent of the working population last year from 28.1 percent in 2014, the last time a labour force survey was conducted, the Namibia Statistics
Governments of 100 countries still lacking disaster early warning systems have a duty to invest in the projects, which could save lives and property, and reap longer-term economic benefits, the U.N.'s
A new study to pinpoint the cause of poverty has started in four central districts on the Seychelles’ main island, Mahe, where the highest percentage of people in poverty live. A 2013 survey by the
Rwanda’s progress in the fight against poverty has been ranked as the most impactful on the continent since 2005, according to the new African Development Bank’s African Economic Outlook (AEO) 2017.
GOVERNMENT is estimating mining will generate $3 billion revenue this year driven by growth in chrome, which is expected to contribute about $500 million. Last year the mining sector experienced a four
Zimbabwe may confiscate unused mining licenses from companies and liberalize gold trading as ways to boost output. Large mines are “sitting on lots of unused claims,” the southern African country’s