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 …

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 …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

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

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

2012 at a better level than at the beginning of the decade, with the exceptions of labour earnings and some poverty …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …