Relying on rapid market-income growth alone is not a viable long-term strategy for reducing poverty.

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• Industrial policy that grows a poor country’s economy does not automatically reduce its poverty. OKOliver Kim29 Jul 2025
• Some aid programmes will beat cash at solving a specific problem, but few will beat it at simply making poor people less poor. CBChris Blattman14 Mar 2014
• The case for giving poor people cash is not that it is a cure, but that it is less bad than most of what aid already does. CBChris Blattman27 Jun 2013
• Many aid programmes will beat cash on cost-effectiveness, and the ones that do will be those that fix a market failure or a supply problem. CBChris Blattman14 Mar 2014
• Development economists can contribute far less to a poor country’s growth policy in real time than either they or their critics assume. NSNoah Smith6 May 2026

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