WWNO

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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Poverty graduation model good way to optimise resource use

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 ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

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

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 ...
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 ...