EXETER — A local Pilates instructor recently embarked on a journey to Kenya, Africa, with a suitcase filled with more than 1,500 pairs of girls underwear. Lindsey Burns, of Club Pilates in Portsmouth, ...

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 ...

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.

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment ...

Catholic Sisters across Africa are transforming charity into sustainable enterprise, reshaping communities and rewriting the ...

Until recently, Molly struggled to imagine life beyond the end of each repetitive day: work in someone elses fields and earn enough to eat, rinse, repeat. "It was a vicious circle I could not escape," ...

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Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

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 ...

The Supporting Access to Finance and Enterprise Recovery Project (SAFER) is increasing access to financial services for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Kenya. It unlocks financing for ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Many people cannot access basic needs due to extreme poverty caused by unemployment. [Photo: Courtesy] World Bank has ...