Education offers some of the best policy options available for tackling long-term poverty, and is the single best means of preventing children from inheriting their parents’ poverty. At the same time, children from chronically poor families are typically among the hardest to reach and to teach. This policy guide focuses on the points at which education and chronic poverty policies overlap and at how, where and why education policies have successfully contributed to poverty reduction.
Authors: Naomi Hossain, Lucy Scott and Andrew Shepherd