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Event: Driving Systems Change to End Extreme Poverty

By BRAC UPGI • October 29, 2020 • 1 minute read

In 2002 we pioneered the Graduation approach – a holistic sequence of interventions that helps people escape the poverty trap for good. When LSE researchers found 95 percent of participants in Bangladesh continued improving their living standards seven years after the intervention ended, we knew Graduation had the potential to transform lives.

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