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Daily Archives: February 10, 2020

#6 Do Good Jobs Matter for Poverty Alleviation?

Jobs and Structural Change Blog SeriesBy Galina KalvatchevaFebruary 10, 2020

Author: Andreas Eberhard-Ruiz, Jobs Group, World Bank. Between 1996 and 2003, Nigeria’s per capita GDP grew by almost 3 percent per annum and the proportion of people living under US$ 1.90 per day – the World Bank’s threshold to measure extreme poverty – fell from 64 percent to 54 percent. By contrast, poverty did not…

#5 Waged Work: The Pathway to Better Jobs

Jobs and Structural Change Blog SeriesBy Galina KalvatchevaFebruary 10, 2020

Authors: Michael Weber and Jörg Langbein, Jobs Group, World Bank. Waged employment is the pathway to better jobs for most workers. Workers in waged jobs have more stable and higher earnings, better quality employment, and longer work relationships than many other types of employment (Merotto, Weber & Aterido, 2018). Yet, employment patterns vary greatly by…

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