Lucy Scott is a Research Associate with UNU-WIDER where she is working on the programme, ‘Foreign Aid: Research and Communication (ReCom)’. Previously she was a Research Officer with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, based at the Overseas Development Institute in London. Lucy completed her PhD with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester. This examined the processes resulting from the implementation of a large-scale asset transfer programme in north-west Bangladesh. Her research interests include approaches to reduce extreme and chronic poverty, how poverty reduction can be incorporated into climate change responses, monitoring and evaluation, social protection and asset transfers.