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How graduation strategy is offering a new path out of extreme poverty

In Mbooni, Makueni County, the scenic hills conceal a difficult reality. Nearly four in 10 residents live in poverty, while about a third experience food poverty.A few years ago, Mercy was among the ...
Project Syndicate

The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty

Research and experience have shown the effectiveness of providing women and girls living in extreme poverty with a productive asset, support to meet their basic needs, and long-term coaching and ...
KPBS

To 'graduate' from poverty, they can borrow to build a business. So why aren't they?

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

The good, the bad, and the ugly in poverty alleviation

In April 2022, I joined a group of donors on a trip to the interiors of Jharkhand’s tribal belt to see the early results of a ...
Houston Public Media

To 'graduate' from poverty, they can borrow to build a business. So why aren't they?

Dean Karlan (in blue shirt) meets with a group of refugees in southwest Uganda to hear about their experience with a program that offers loans to help them "graduate" from poverty. (Claire Harbage/NPR ...