Egyptian youth represent 23.6% of the total population, around 20.7m, and around 26.3% of those youth suffer unemployment, while 51.2% suffer poverty, according to a 2015 report that was issued by

South Africa’s economy is having a tough time.

The Telangana Government on Thursday constituted a nine-member coordination committee to operationalise the Centre’s scheme for unemployed youth and farmers to establish grid-connected solar PV pow

AN estimated 11.2 million Filipino families see themselves as poor, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted in the second quarter of the year.

Black children were almost four times as likely as white children to be living in poverty in 2013, a new report has found, the latest evidence that the economic recovery is leaving behind some of t

The European Union on Monday approved 1.15 billion euros (£813.78 million) in aid for West Africa through to 2020, nearly doubling its previous commitment to a region that is a major source of migr

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A motorbike accident two years ago in the Cape Town suburb of Milnerton left Pascal Kassongo with a leg fracture, multiple cuts and a written-

India has secured second position amongst 40 countries in a survey of trust in national governments for 2014 conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Switzerland has emerged at the top with Norway coming in third.

A greater and more sustained effort to deepen the integration of developing countries into the global trading system through lower trade costs and fewer barriers between countries is essential to eliminating extreme poverty, according to a joint World Bank Group and World Trade Organization report.

Even as the per capita income in Delhi registered an all-time high of Rs.2.41 lakh in 2014-15, the number of industrial units in the Capital grew by 18.35 per cent during 2005 to 2013.

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