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 …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …

, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …

poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …

negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …

by the crisis, and the majority of them had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. Poverty has been rising …

-crisis levels. Most poverty and inequality indicators fell over the period. …

was labour earnings for some employment categories. With the onset of the crisis of 2008, the poverty rate stopped falling …