economic

A person’s family wealth, their access to education and even the zip code they’re born into shapes their chances at economic mobility.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley, president of College Futures Foundation, which commissioned the study, said that its aim is to help community colleges “better understand how the promise of economic mobility ... is panning out or not.”

Malawians are set to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections, following a turbulent five years that has seen the economic crisis worsening in the southern African nation.

Is it approaching a "South Africa moment", when a combination of political pressure, economic, sporting and cultural boycotts helped to force Pretoria to abandon apartheid?

A lot of the economic statistics are trailing.