What Works For The Poorest?: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the World's Ultra-Poor

Poverty redaction has become the central goal of development policies over the last decade but there is a growing realization that the poorest people rarely benefit from poverty reduction programmes. Microfinance programmes can help poor people improve their lives but generally such programmes do not reach the extremely poor and the chronic poor: casual labourers in remote rural areas, ethnic and indigenous minorities, older people, windows, migrants, bonded labourers and others.

To counter ...