Stephen Devereux

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Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Devereux, Simon Maxwell
Taking stock: Are graduation or rights-based programmes better for getting children out of poverty?

01.06.2015
Governments such as Bangladesh are offering graduation programmes that provide transfers to extremely poor people for a fixed period in order to ‘graduate’ them out of poverty. Rights-based approaches emphasize a right to social protection that is not time-bound or conditional on certain behaviours. Stephen Devereux puts forward a hypothetical exchange between two NGO workers, ‘The Graduator’ and ‘Mr Right’, who are talking about life, the universe – and graduation.

BIG CHANGE starts small

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Stephen Devereux

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Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Taking stock: Are graduation or rights-based programmes better for getting children out of poverty?

BIG CHANGE starts small