Which is why I keep harping on the phenomenon of falling into poverty because in India, it is big; and until we control it, we can't control overall poverty," Anirudh Krishna, professor of public policy at Duke University, who has researched poverty in developing countries and advised governments, told ISignal. “Sustained economic growth is the most powerful tool for poverty alleviation,” the report said, and cited evidence from the last 30 years: trade and globalisation spurred growth and pulled hundreds of millions of people from poverty, largely in China and India.