New study offers perhaps the first empirical example of poverty traps and shows that one-off transfers can provide a sustainable route out of poverty

Assigning civil servants to environments to which they are most socially proximate may actually limit their ability to effectively serve the nation

Robin Burgess on motivating civil servants, breaking the poverty trap by increasing productivity, and the political economy of electricity

Robin Burgess, director of the IGC, talks about the importance of careful data collection and the structure of civil service.*

Vocational training programmes, rather than apprenticeships, make it easier for youth in Uganda to move between firms and out of unemployment.

While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts

Programme to provide ultra-poor women in Bangladesh with livestock assets suggests one-off interventions can be effective in fighting extreme poverty

Solar micro-grid product can bridge the gaps in access to electricity, with potentially large economic and welfare gains to households