Poverty Reduction (Inchauste et al.)

When job earnings are behind poverty reduction by Gabriela Inchauste, João P. Azevedo, Sergio Olivieri, Jaime Saavedra and Herman Winkler published by World Bank. “Improvement in labor market conditions has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty success stories observed in the last decade – that is the primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by income source… A further decomposition of the contribution of labor income to poverty reduction in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand found that changes in individual characteristics (education, work experience and region of residence) were important, but that overall, increases in real earnings among the poor matter the most.”