A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...

Nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to central- grid-based electricity in 2018. In this map, the countries are colored by the number of people lacking access to electricity.

Sub-Saharan Africa Learning What Works Africa is the world's poorest continent. But for the first time in a generation—amid all the bad news—there is hope for change. An increasing number of countries ...

Improving the environment for investment In the 1990s, the ratio of investment to GDP in sub-Saharan Africa hovered around 17 percent of GDP, well below the ratios attained in the developing countries ...