Why Nigeria must stop mistaking projections for outcomes, and start governing poverty as a systemNigeria's poverty debate has drifted into a dangerous simplification. A single figure appears, detached ...

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu speaks at the city’s annual budget breakfast. Wu is guaranteeing a summer job for every Boston public school student. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald/TNS) Nearly 44 million people ...

Since 1990, the World Bank has reported estimates of the number of people worldwide that live in extreme poverty. This poverty standard is based on how the poorest countries in the world define ...

When Raila Odinga took the African Union (AU) job last year, he let us know he had opted to move to a constituency larger than Kenya. In as much as it defused tensions on the local political scene, it ...