The guide highlights the potential trade-offs that policy-makers, programme designers and implementers face in using social protection with the specific objective of preventing impoverishment.
Authors: Lucy Scott and Vidya Diwakar
Read MoreSustainable escapes from poverty through productive inclusion
This policy guide looks at evidence from social protection programmes with innovative designs that combine different interventions, either following a graduation approach or by building integrated social protection systems.
Authors: Chiara Mariotti, Martina Ulrichs and Luke Harman
Read MoreFinancial Inclusion Policy Guide: Enhanced Resilience through Savings and Insurance via Linkages and Digital Technology
The objective of this policy guide is to provide policymakers and programme designers with an up-to-date view of what needs to be done to include the poorest people in financial services, and by doing so make a dent in their poverty. It selects savings and insurance as two aspects of financial services that are most likely to build poor people’s resilience in the face of the multiple risks they face – a necessary precursor to any investments they might make to get out of poverty.
Read MoreGetting to Zero: Tackling Extreme Poverty through Private Sector Development Policy Guide
This policy guide aims at identifying those interventions that best promote entrepreneurship among the poor in a way that puts them on trajectories out of poverty. For some, these interventions can contribute to sustained poverty escapes; for others, they mean faster upward mobility to the poverty line.
Read MoreMiddle-income Countries Policy Guide: Addressing chronic poverty in middle-income countries: getting close to zero
Middle-income countries (MICs) are home to the majority of the world’s extremely poor people. However, some have also achieved remarkable success in reducing chronic poverty, and have been a source of inspiration for developing countries as a whole.
This Policy Guide is targeted to policymakers in middle- and lower-income Countries (MICs and LICs) who would like to be inspired and learn lessons from the countries that have reduced chronic poverty as part of their efforts to accelerate structural transformation and achieve a higher growth path. The Guide provides recommendations on how countries can replicate this achievement using lessons learnt from ten selected MICs with greatest poverty reduction record since 1990 (Cape Verde, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Senegal, Viet Nam, Brazil, China, Thailand and Tunisia). Evidence is analysed to identify the policies, strategies and political trajectories that have characterised their route out of extreme poverty.
Authors: Dominik Bulla, Abdou Salam Fall, Haris Gazdar, Medhi Krongkaew, Amanda Lenhardt, Sami Mouley, Alina Rocha Menocal, Andrew Shepherd and Chiara Mariotti
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Employment Policy Guide: Working out of chronic poverty
This policy guide examines policies and programmes to improve the quantity and quality of work for chronically poor people engaged in informal wage employment so that their hard work can contribute to poverty escapes.
Authors: Dominik Bulla, Lucy Scott and Andrew Shepherd, Martha Chen, Pedro Martins, Davuluri Venkateswarlu and Jill Wells.
Read MoreEnergy Policy Guide: Harnessing the power of energy access for chronic poverty reduction
This policy guide explores how access to energy can assist with policies for the chronically poor.
Authors: Shonali Pachauri, Andrew Scott, Lucy Scott and Andrew Shepherd.
Read MoreEducation Policy Guide: A guide to what works in policy and practice
This Policy Guide look at the points at which education and chronic poverty policies overlap and at where, how and why education policies have successfully contributed to poverty reduction.
Authors: Naomi Hossain, Lucy Scott and Andrew Shepherd
Read MoreAgriculture Policy Guide: Meeting the challenge of a new pro-poor agricultural paradigm
The guide identifies key areas and new emphases for agricultural policy and programme development
to eradicate poverty and hunger and presents new research results on agriculture and poverty
dynamics in Africa.
Authors: Amanda Lenhardt, Amita Shah, Andrew Shepherd, Bara Gueye, Lucy Scott and Miranda Morgan
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