LUSAKA, May 10, 2021—The moment Sofia Chansa, 49, received a $200 grant, her whole life changed. With the money, she was able to expand her vegetable garden—once too small to support her family—to ...
In rural Zambia, subsistence farmers face complex questions with no easy answers and very little time. Drought fueled by ...
The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
The Importance of Educating Girls and Women – The Fight Against Poverty in African Rural Communities
Ann Cotton is founder and Executive Director of Camfed International (Campaign for Female Education) and co-chairs the UN Girls Education Initiative. In 2005, she received the Skoll Foundation Award ...
IN NAIROBI, a motorbike taxi driver who spent months hiding from his landlord during the covid-19 lockdown will be back on the road in 2022 and beginning to repay his debt. A farmer in rural Zambia ...
James Wintrup does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
For those living in rural Zambia, poverty rates were stubbornly high, impacting as much as 78 percent of the population and disproportionately affecting adolescent girls and women. Although the ...
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