Icon Our WorkThe effectiveness of the Graduation Approach: What does the evidence tell us?

Debating Graduation

In a special edition of the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth’s Policy in Focus, the graduation approach to poverty reduction is explored by a number of contributors. The paper from Development Pathways’ Stephen Kidd and Diloá Bailey-Athias delves deeply into the details of many of the impact evaluations of graduation interventions. The effectiveness of the Graduation Approach: What does the evidence tell us? is on pages 22 – 28 and highlights that the average effects of graduation schemes would not be large enough to free programme participants from poverty.