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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Highrise apartments along the railway line in Kibera, Nairobi. The apartments are part of the Kibera Slum Upgrading Project, September 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard] Over the years, Africa has had ...
It's called the "graduation" approach — both financial and moral support to help people move from extreme poverty to self-sufficiency. But in... To 'graduate' from poverty, they can borrow to build a ...
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 ...
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