Escaping the poverty traps conference

This­ conference responded to the challenge to USAID and other development assistance agencies to find ways to connect the poor to economic growth.

Conference highlights include:

• Discussions of innovative pilot programs that use novel savings and insurance instruments to crowd-in technology adoption and productive savings
• Analysis of the relationship between growth and chronic poverty reduction
• Case studies and analysis of social protection programmes and efforts to make them economically productive
• Prospects for redesigning food aid to improve its impacts on both source and recipient communities
• Lessons on how to transfer productive assets to the poor and how to successfully incorporate marginal producers into input and output markets

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