Ending poverty in all its forms everywhere is key for sustainable development.

Poverty eradication is the ultimate measure of development effectiveness. Yet to eradicate poverty in today’s context of intersecting challenges and crises, we need to revise what we know of poverty and how to eliminate it. This MA helps you gain the interdisciplinary knowledge and cutting-edge skills to engage with the research, design, implementation and assessment of national and international efforts to get to zero poverty.

Based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), you’ll develop a sound understanding of the main theories on poverty, inequality and vulnerability in development. You’ll learn from experts who undertake innovative research on poverty eradication, and regularly contribute to national and international policy fora. You’ll gain practical skills to engage in debates on poverty and development, including in relation to:

monetary and multidimensional poverty and its drivers

intersecting inequalities

the political economy shaping poverty measurement and discourse

social protection and other interventions for poverty and vulnerability reduction.