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.
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%. 
