Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

A key way for the world's poor - nearly half of humanity - to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of … to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against … poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from selfemployment into …

Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less …

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most … into and out of poverty should be the main focus of anti-poverty policies. Understanding the characteristics of the … persistently poor, and the circumstances and mechanisms associated with entry into and exit from poverty, can help to inform …