Dutch publication De Correspondent has an excellent primer on global poverty that everyone should read.

Poverty 101: How can we end global poverty once and for all?

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Reading list

• The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy
  by Martin Ravallion
• Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty Hardcover
  by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World-and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Hardcover
  by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Learning list

The Challenge of World Poverty: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

• MIT Courseware (2011)
• EdX Course (2018)