Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …

Do minimum wage policies reduce poverty in developing countries? It depends. Raising the minimum wage could increase or … decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers—a minority of workers … in most developing countries—many of whom do not live in poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty …

Do minimum wage policies reduce poverty in developing countries? It depends. Raising the minimum wage could increase or … decrease poverty, depending on labor market characteristics. Minimum wages target formal sector workers—a minority of workers … in most developing countries—many of whom do not live in poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty …

suggest that minimum wage increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality and the gender pay gap, while …

increases can significantly reduce in-work poverty, wage inequality, and the gender pay gap, while generally improving the …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of twenty-two developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in per capita income …, changes in average real wages, human capital investment, and other variables associated with changes in poverty. The …

This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …

Global GDP is more than 100 trillion dollars, yet 10% of the world's population still live in extreme poverty on less … than $1.90 per day. No one should have to live like that: alleviating poverty is a minimal moral obligation implied by … world to each poor person would eliminate extreme poverty directly and at negligible cost. It is the least we should do …

poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … income, consumption, human capital and assets, and, ultimately, a reduction in poverty. …

Tebaldi & Mohan (2010, JDS) have established an empirical nexus between institutions and monetary poverty. We first …-examine their results with a non-monetary and multidimensional poverty indicator first published in 2010. Our findings confirm the … underlying study that institutions could have an indirect effect on multidimensional poverty. In other words, the poverty …