protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … to the three billion people who are poor using the $2.50 PPP dollar poverty line. A much larger number - 900 million …). To achieve more and better employment (where 'better' depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment …

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in … India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or … across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them … urban poverty. …

The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical … economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small …