Claim: Backed by experiments done only in Sri Lanka on a few households households showing that a bicycle can increase the income of a poor family by as much as 35%, many members of the cycling industry promote bicycles for poverty alleviation, a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty.
Evidence: Experiments done in Uganda, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka on hundreds of households have shown that a bicycle can increase a poor family's income as much as 35%.