STORY HIGHLIGHTSIn Kenya, poverty and joblessness remain entrenched among host communities and refugees, especially in camps, while humanitarian assistance has declined. Jobs are disappearing in labor ...

Microfinance lending is often lauded as a key tool in reducing poverty at the bottom of the income pyramid. But in Kenya, critics say it has played a part in stoking violent anti-government unrest.

Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has reported that Kenya is still grappling with high levels of poverty at 29.2 percent ...

Nairobi, December 14, 2023 – Kenya has in the past been successful in translating economic growth into improved living standards of its citizens. Despite progress, the challenge going forward is to ...

The "Kenya Poverty and Equity Assessment 2023" by the World Bank reports that Kenya has seen robust GDP growth, positively impacting living standards, but this progress is unevenly distributed across ...

13 October 2023 – Around the world, some 670 million people live in extreme poverty. Unless progress picks up pace, the international community is nowhere near ending this plight before 2030. Ahead of ...

California officials representing some of the wealthiest cities in the world traveled to one of the poorest villages in Africa this week to study universal basic income, a poverty solution they hope ...

PRODUCTS AND WHAT SHE’S COLLECTING ARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, AND 50 GIRLS HAVE RECEIVED THEIR REUSABLE SANITARY PADS AND THEY ARE VERY MUCH EXCITED TO RECEIVE THEM. IT’S THE JOYFUL SOUND OF NEWFOUND ...