Poverty / Inequality

The Low-Wage Recovery and Growing Inequality

NELP Summary: This report updates NELP’s previous analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. More information...

Addressing Informality, Reducing PovertyPoverty in Focus

There is increasing recognition that decent and productive employment is an essential pathway to poverty reduction. Most of the working poor...

The Inequality of Declining Wages During the Recovery

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Economic Recovery Assessment: Sierra Leone

Evidence from a recent assessment by Mercy Corps of economic recovery assessment in Sierra Leone showed that youth and petty traders were...

Labour Market Mobility of Low Income Households

Living Conditions of Tea Plantation Workers

The strike by women workers in the tea plantations of Kerala brings to fore the miserable living conditions of the workers in this sector...

The Living Wage: Winning the Fight for Social Justice

Challenging Economic Inequality: Tactics and Strategies

Economic and social inequality is a major problem, implicated in poverty, ill health and exploitation. Inequality has increased in many countries...

Women and the Informal Economy: A Think Piece

Summary from Office of Development Effectiveness: “Women dominate the informal economy. Within informal employment, their wages are...

Socio-economic status of workers of building construction industry

Industrialization with the introduction of newly developed technologies plays an important role for development of a country. Building construction...