Aid, Growth, and Jobs

Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and services they need to move up out of poverty

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Fields, Gary S.
Publisher:	[2013]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Wirtschaftswachstum \| Economic growth \| Erwerbstätigkeit \| Employment \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries \| Entwicklungshilfe \| Development aid \| Armut \| Poverty

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (24 p)
Series:	IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 7141
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.2207282 [DOI]
Classification:	I3 - Welfare and Poverty ; J2 - Time Allocation; Work Behavior; Employment Determination and Creation ; O1 - Economic Development ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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