The Long Term Impact of Interventions on the Ultra Poor

In some settings you feel that it's really essential to get the long term impact of interventions because they are themselves setting up to make changes in the long run. In India, we've been following them now for 10 years, 15 years soon and we see that the gain do persist. What's interesting is that the original beneficiaries are now quite old so they've retired and they don't really work anymore very much but it's their grown children who are earning more often. The mechanism is that they are able to migrate longer and for better job opportunity once they've migrated so they bring more to the table. That's one example where you really need the long term.