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  How the Graduation Approach Works With Social Protection Programs

  The question of how graduation approaches can work with existing social protection programs is becoming central to efforts of governments, funders and implementers as they consider how to effectively reduce poverty and increase resiliency. New learnings were on display at the 2016 RESULTS Annual Conference, where a group of graduation advocates and practitioners from Uplift, BRAC, Fundación Capital, RESULTS and Trickle Up explored what new research is showing on the effectiveness of graduation in different...

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  Now is the time to invest in Graduation

  In May 2015, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)–two of the most renowned research organizations in the world–published an article in Science Magazine demonstrating that the Graduation Approach is not only tremendously effective, but it has a lasting impact on the lives of the least well off. For far too many the poverty trap is inescapable. The lack of assets leads to no job opportunities which in...

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