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