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Self-employment and poverty in developing countries
A key way for the world's poor to escape poverty is to earn more for their labor. Most of the world's poor people are self-employed, but because there are few opportunities in most developing countries for them to earn enough to escape poverty, they are working hard but working poor. Two key policy planks in the fight against poverty should be: raising the returns to self-employment and creating more opportunities to move from self-employment into higher paying wage employment.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: IZA World of Labor ; ISSN: 2054-9571 ; Year: 2019 ; Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
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self-employment
poverty
labor earnings
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fields, Gary S.
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.15185/izawol.60.v2
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Associated
- Fields, Gary S.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2019
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