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What Makes the Study Unique?

Focuses on wealth creation rather than poverty;
Is global in scope and will draw lessons for policy at national and global levels;
Focuses on mobility rather than static poverty, and seeks to understand permanent movements out of poverty;
Brings a bottom-up perspective to how people move out of and stay out of poverty;
Takes an “economics plus” approach, also exploring social, political, and institutional factors that influence access to economic opportunities;
Explores community and household level factors that enable people to move out of poverty;
Addresses key poverty issues in each country and links to ongoing policy processes such as PRSPs where relevant;
Complements ongoing macro-level research on pro-poor economic growth and inequality;
Is a follow-up study to Voices of the Poor, a World Bank study in 60 countries exploring poverty and powerlessness from the perspectives of poor people.

Field Notes

Ten years from now, do you think your community will become more prosperous? Stay the same? Or less prosperous?

Our roads are poor, and we don’t see them improving in the next ten years; also, there is no indication that fertilizer prices will come down, and prices for our crops are getting worse year after year – I don’t expect anything different in the next ten years”

― Godius, Focus Group Discussion of Men, Mkalanga Village, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania

Study Scope and Design

	Purpose
	What makes the study unique?
	Study countries
	Methodology development
	Overview of sampling and methods
	Timeframe
	Conflict and mobility

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