text: what's the way out of poverty?   study highlights key elements of successful poverty reduction november 3, 2005 — a new world bank report concludes that reducing poverty at scale depends on several factors including leadership and commitment, institutional innovation, learning and experimentation, external catalysts such as donor assistance and sometimes even economic shocks. "reducing poverty on a global scale: learning and innovating for development" draws on more than 100 case studies of poverty reduction worldwide. world bank analysts have identified the main factors that help or hurt in reducing poverty at scale, and what this means for world bank and donor operations go to link to find out more!