Climate change threatens to abandon years of work to handle poverty in developing countries, a report warned today. Strong, urgent action was needed in poor countries to strengthen the impacts (影响) of climate change alongside efforts to promote economic development. The report said international ai...
The use of the political economy approach has come out with the suggestion that urban poor in developing countries has been impoverished by ineffective economic policies developed abroad as well as at national level. Despite the effort made to eradicate poverty, there is an urgent need to address...
International migration is one of the most important factors affecting economic relations between developed and developing countries in the 21st century. At the start of the century, it was estimated that about 175 million people—roughly 3% of the world population—lived and worked outside the cou...
To date, a well-developed business perspective on how to promote sustainability for those in poverty is sorely lacking. For sustainability enhancing innovations in developing countries, poverty presents unique challenges. In this paper, we argue that if sustainability enhancing innovations introduced in ...
Energy poverty affects poor communities and poor nations far more severely, and more directly, than in developed nations. Poor rural communities are particularly vulnerable, and the poor globally spend by far the largest percentage of income on energy. To make matters worse, ...
Poverty reduction and decent work in developing countries: Do minimum wages help? Unlike the well-developed literature on the employment impact of the minimum wage in industrial nations, very little is known about minimum wage effects in... Catherine,SAGET - 《International Labour Review》 被引量...
The background papers commissioned for this Report provide an overview of the important aspects involved in the links between employment, productivity and poverty reduction in both developing and developed economies. The papers were commissioned from experts in the field as well as various departments ...
India is now entering the final stages of transition from a population with high fertility and high mortality to one with low fertility and low mortality 鈥 and is doing so in the context of widespread poverty and under-developed social ... P Verasanso 被引量: 1发表: 2014年 加载更多来源...
in the late 1800s. In the 20th century government and private organizations built low-income housing and appropriated funds forurban renewaland offered low-interest home loans. Shantytowns, which often grow up around urban centres in developing countries as rural populations migrate to the cities ...
Alleviating poverty in the least developed countries (LDCs) requires raising the income level of local workers. We look at the poor as producers and explore drivers of higher employee wages. We focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs) because they are a major driver of employment growth and...