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The concept of development resilience – the ability to be and remain well-off when faced with shocks and stressors – is a growing area of research and fast becoming a mainstay of policymaking and development programming. It is, in part, a justifiable and even urgently necessary reframing of well-established ideas in food security and vulnerability.

For the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021, Finn Tarp, Nikos Tzavidis, Peter Lanjouw and Lucy Scott explore what the evolving global pandemic may mean for extreme poverty and how big data might play a role in helping us to understand it.

Traditional poverty measurement apporaches often provide insufficient data. Can new data sources fill the gap?

A new DEEP Working Paper presents findings of a selective, structured literature review of what works to reduce extreme poverty in five countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Tanzania.