Insufficient labour income and limited access to employment are critical problems that policy makers must address when … designing development strategies in Latin American countries. The persistence of the high incidence of poverty and inequality …, employment creation and the distributional impact of these factors. Through a simple decomposition of the sources of household …

This Working Paper seeks to provide an overview of the link between employment and poverty in Kenya. Using descriptive … statistics and regression techniques, it examines unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings, and the link of … all these with poverty. Data are from the unit records of the Labour Force Survey of 1999/99, the latest available data at …

rapid enough nor employment-intensive enough to absorb such a large influx of workers. Moreover, the economy?s greater … high inequality and poverty. …

This Country Study provides an outline of a Strategy for Growth, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Uzbekistan. It … productive employment. The study favours supplementing such measures, which promote growth and employment, with more poverty … recommends measures to increase the employment intensity of growth and reduce inequality so that the country?s pattern of growth …

performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late …