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Working Hard, Working Poor - A Global Journey (Hardcover)
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Working Hard, Working Poor - A Global Journey (Hardcover)
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More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on
less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies
have shown repeatedly that the main and often the sole asset of the
poor is their labor. It follows that to understand global poverty
one must understand labor markets and labor earnings in the
developing world. Excellent books exist on ending world poverty
that discuss in depth many important aspects of economic
development but do not focus on employment and self-employment,
work and non-work. Working Hard, Working Poor fills in where the
other books leave off. Issues of analyzing poverty and low earnings
in the developing world are quite different from those in the
developed world. The discourse in the developed world is about
incentive effects of social welfare programs, cultures of poverty,
single-parenthood, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, ill
health, mental illness, domestic violence, and the like. But in the
developing world, different issues predominate, such as own-account
work and household enterprises, agricultural work, casual
employment, and informal work. And some of the policy
issues-stimulating economic growth, harnessing the energies of the
private sector, increasing paid employment, and raising the returns
to self-employment-take a different twist. This book shows how
people in poverty work, what has been effective in helping the poor
earn their way out of poverty, and how readers might help.
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