Johan Fourie is associate professor in economics at Stellenbosch University. The Holy Grail for development economists is to identify an affordable policy intervention that will help the poorest escape poverty.
We know that living a longer and better life is correlated with many things: higher income from having a job, living in a house with clean water and sanitation, and access to better schools and health facilities, to name a few.
But the trouble comes when we try to write policy to improve these things: which investment, given limited resources and political constraints, will most benefit children from poor households? And […]
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