“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shock ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... The study's findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...

the pace of economic expansion in the region remains below the growth rate of the previous decade (2000-2014) and is insufficient to have a significant effect on poverty reduction. Transformative ...

The Deputy President used the lecture platform to spotlight South Africa’s overarching theme for its G20 tenure: “Solidarity, ...

In other words, reducing inequality may be as effective in reducing poverty as increasing economic growth. Inequality and poverty are not inevitable. Our policy choices determine the level of ...

To compound these issues, economic growth has stagnated since 2008. Ending extreme poverty, unemployment and inequality requires economic growth that includes more people. To get that result ...

The global economy is stuck in low gear, which could deal a major blow to the fight against poverty and inequality ... As the IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook update shows, global growth is ...

There is no factual evidence that deindustrialisation, poverty, inequality and unemployment is caused by black economic empowerment, as argued by William Gumede ...

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country’s per capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... study’s findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024 ... The study's findings show that to achieve inclusive economic growth, countries should aggressively invest in ...