Vidya Diwakar is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and Deputy Director of the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network. Vidya convenes an online IDS professional short course which focuses on mixed methods research and evaluation for poverty and inequality reduction. She also leads on the IDS postgraduate degree in Poverty & Development.
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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?