Understanding development and poverty alleviation

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Abstract: Despite massive progress in the past few decades, global poverty — in all its different dimensions — remains a broad and entrenched problem. For example, today, more than 700 million people subsist on extremely low incomes. Every year, five million children under five die of diseases that often could have been prevented or treated by a handful of proven interventions. Today, a large majority of children in low- and middle-income countries attend primary school, but many of them leave school lacking proficiency in reading, writing and mathematics. How to effectively reduce global poverty remains one of humankind’s most pressing questions. It is also one of the biggest questions facing the discipline of economics since its very inception.

Keywords: poverty; field experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43 pages
Date: 2019-10-14
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