Launching the Poverty Reduction Knowledge Portal For much of my professional life, I did not set out to “write about development economics.” What I did instead was work — in villages, with families, with institutions — trying to provide affordable health care, trying to understand what actually reduced poverty and what quietly failed. This portal …
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A Lifetime in Poverty Reduction For more than half a century, my life and work have been intertwined with one central question: how do we actually reduce poverty? I have seen poverty not as an abstract number in an economist’s table but as a daily struggle for millions of families—for food, for dignity, for opportunity. …
Economists over the years have been grappling with different models of economic development for reducing poverty, focusing on one over the other. Tamil Nadu, one of India’s states, which is larger than several countries in both geographic and population aspects, has been making significant strides in reducing poverty throughout the state. In this blog, I …
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Rajaratnam Abel 