In 2022 the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings Institute published a great (and brief!) paper The Evolution of Global Poverty

The image above (taken from the paper) shows a dramatic shift in the countries where the world’s poor now live.

There’s also a good news story- that the absolute number of people living below the poverty line has shrunk dramatically.

For the mSupply Foundation, our aim is to “do as much good as we can.” It’s clear that Africa is where the needs are.

Our efforts in this direction include establishing a team of experts in the African time zone, listening and responding to African countries desires to take ownership of their systems, and looking at how we can both share our expertise and move our internal capacity to Africa. That makes it sound so easy- it isn’t. We’re listening, learning, experimenting in order to work out how to do this in a way that both transfers power and provides enduring benefit.