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Employment and shared growth : rethinking the role of labor mobility for development /
There is one asset that poor people have in abundance: labor. Thus, what distinguishes the poor from the non-poor in low income countries is, simply, their ability to sell labor at a good price. It should be of little surprise, then, that enhancing the poor's access to employment is increasingl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Poverty.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | There is one asset that poor people have in abundance: labor. Thus, what distinguishes the poor from the non-poor in low income countries is, simply, their ability to sell labor at a good price. It should be of little surprise, then, that enhancing the poor's access to employment is increasingly recognized as key to development. But while the creation of "good" jobs for the poor has become a policy priority for many developing countries, the mechanisms by which employment stimulates growth and reduces poverty have, until now, not been well understood. This book aims to help fill that |
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| Notas: | Pepers presented at a June, 2006 conference organized by the Poverty Reduction and Development Effectiveness Department (PRMPR) of the World Bank (WB), in collaboration with the Labor Markets Team in the Social Protection group (HDNSP). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 124 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0821371088 9780821371084 9780821371077 082137107X 6610940444 9786610940448 1280940441 9781280940446 |