Andrew Shepherd is Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network and Honorary Associate at the Institute of Development Studies. He is also a Senior Research Associate at ODI, London, and recently lead author of Inclusive, Sustainable Economic Transformation.
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Why the UK government and others need to balance ‘growth from above’ with ‘growth from below’ if it wants to reduce poverty in our crisis-ridden world
Traditional ‘growth from above’ approaches often don’t help people escape poverty. Instead, most people in or near poverty increase their income through ‘growth from below’. But what is it? And how should governments around the world adopt it?