To learn systematically about reducing poverty, a great deal can be learned from people who have actually moved out of poverty and stayed out of poverty. The purpose of this book is to conduct a large scale global study in 10 to 15 countries to learn retrospectively from those who were once poor but have moved out of poverty and stayed out of poverty in different political, governance and economic environments. The global breadth of the study will enable examination of these to contribute new methodological approaches to building on available poverty data and integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. Moving out of Poverty inquiries into social, political and institutional factors and how these help and hinder access to economic opportunities. It probes into the processes and the how’s and why’s that enable people to maintain and accumulate wealth at different levels of wellbeing.