several decades. It is important to determine what needs to be done to absorb them into employment at rising levels of labor … reliable route out of poverty for a region that is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s absolute poor. [World Bank …

This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for … Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a â …€˜cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty), this paper develops price …

individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on … Employment - Unemployment Survey 1999-2000 (EUS) provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation. A broad descriptive socio …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …

urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … people become poor in the first place? What pathways lead people downward into poverty? The results of some recent research … show that health is, indeed, closely related to the accretion and persistence of poverty. Those who fall into poverty and …

There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital … channels. ‘Employment generation’ has been the most important channel through which SEZs lend themselves to human … development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are not lower than those prevailing …