Possibilities -- 9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers -- 10. Urban Poverty, Social …

A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia's Social … government introduced support based on giving actual cash through social cash transfers aimed at reducing poverty and … of social cash transfers, nationwide extreme poverty would be 1.6 percentage points higher than otherwise. The results …

new public data sources. -- living wage ; employment ; poverty …

poverty. In contrast, the authors of this paper adopt a more flexible "reduced-form" approach that links increases in both … federal and state minima to contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, they find indications of a … poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages among teenagers and older junior high school dropouts …