poverty reduction

Under standard conditions in the Colombian coffee sector, the benefits of producing better coffee are not passed on to farmers, weakening their incentives to invest in higher-quality production. However, when a large international buyer required inte...

Education has been a major driver of global growth and poverty reduction since 1980, accounting for nearly half of overall income gains – boosting productivity while reducing inequality and making public schooling a key engine of poverty reduction.

Extreme poverty has declined drastically. Evidence from China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa sheds light on how this unfolded.

Does treating depression, low self-esteem, or low aspirations help poverty reduction?

Public works employment in Tunisia has large, positive effects for both directly targeted individuals and their neighbours in the short-term, which mostly disappear five years post-programme

A non-contributory pension scheme substantially improved consumption and wellbeing, and reduced the number of over-65s in poverty doing paid work

In an era of deglobalisation, developing countries need more equality within their borders

Could a universal supplemental income transfer, pegged at 1% of GDP, transform India’s anti-poverty strategy?

New study offers perhaps the first empirical example of poverty traps and shows that one-off transfers can provide a sustainable route out of poverty