Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to miss poverty targets: WB
Members of the public wait to get food ration in Kenya. Sub-Saharan Africa has little or no chance of achieving the UN target of having not more than three percent of its population living in extreme poverty by 2030, according to a new World Bank report. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Sub-Saharan Africa has little or no chance of achieving the United Nations target of having not more than three percent of its population living in extreme poverty by 2030, according to a new World Bank report.
While rates of absolute poverty have declined dramatically across many parts of the African countries since the early 1990s, the rates of reduction are now decelerating.
