🆕 How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective

Emily Beam, Lasse Brune, Stefan Dercon, Dean Karlan, Ashley Pople, Christopher Udry & Rocco Zizzamia https://voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/scaling-poverty-alleviation-how-group-coaching-makes-graduation-programmes

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Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.

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