Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and services they need to move up out of poverty.

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Year of publication:	2013-01
Authors:	Fields, Gary S.
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	foreign assistance \| economic growth \| employment \| poverty \| developing countries

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 7141 24 pages
Classification:	I3 - Welfare and Poverty ; J2 - Time Allocation; Work Behavior; Employment Determination and Creation ; O1 - Economic Development ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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