Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is ...

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 ...

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 Poverty Graduation (PG) approach is one of the most rigorously evaluated models for reducing extreme poverty, with consistent gains in income, consumption, savings, and psychosocial well-being.

As unemployment rates in South Africa rise, graduates face uncertain futures, challenging their sense of identity and ...

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 ...