Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Every month, Alice Shikuku has to choose between buying enough food for her family and buying sanitary pads for her daughter. Her family moved to Korogocho, one of the poorest ...

Nearly half of Kenyans live below the poverty line, surviving on less than $3 per ...

In Kenya, thousands of prisoners are appearing before courts without legal representation, with no one to protect or defend their rights. It has become its own kind of epidemic. Kenya currently holds ...

The World Bank projects 2.4 million Kenyans to be at risk of falling into poverty by the end of this year due to worsening economic conditions. The bank's new report, dubbed Kenya Economic Update, ...

The dusty roads leadingthrough China’s revolutionary heartland tell a story that cannot be fullyappreciated from history books.For the past severaldays, I travelled across China, retracing the route ...

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.

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 ...

World Bank Group,Senior Economist,Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management, Allen Dennis (left) flanked by Poverty & Equity Global Practice,Economist, Utz Johann Pape shortly after a meeting with ...

Mau Forest is East Africa’s largest native montane forest and Kenya’s largest water catchment. Olpusimoru Forest Reserve is one of Mau Forest’s protected areas, but its forest cover has been greatly ...

International development agencies and non-governmental organisations often seek to advance community development by fostering entrepreneurship. The premise is that poor people can enhance their ...

Editor’s Note: Know someone who inspires you? Click here to nominate them as a CNN Hero. Growing up in poverty in rural Kenya, Nelly Cheboi watched her single mother, who had only completed fifth ...