Livelihoods

IPA is investigating many ways to help the poor boost the income they get from their work. Methods range from improving farming yields, to land and property ownership, to improving understanding of credit markets for farmers and productivity boosts for small and medium enterprises.

Fin24 Cites IPA Research in Ethiopia on Impacts of Providing Cash and Jobs

Fin24 highlights the complications of providing payments, jobs, and training as a means to help people escape poverty, citing...

Workers at a factory in Ethiopia

Do Factory Jobs Lift Workers Out of Poverty?

Chris Blattman and Stefan Dercon wrote an op-ed in The New York Times about the unexpected results from a study we worked on with them in Ethiopia.

The Long-Term Effects of Access to Mobile Money in Kenya

There are an estimated 411 million mobile money accounts worldwide, allowing even the poor in remote areas to send and receive money at low cost.

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