Tweet

2.9 Conclusions: Working Out of Poverty

Written by: International Labour Organization

Article Overview: For people living in poverty, discrimination and multiple deprivations cumulate to create a cycle of disadvantage. Recurring themes of the experience of poverty are the low returns to work of women and men in socially excluded communities and barriers to finding decent work opportunities.

2.9 Conclusions: Working Out of Poverty

For people living in poverty, discrimination and multiple deprivations
cumulate to create a cycle of disadvantage. Recurring themes of the experience
of poverty are the low returns to work of women and men in socially
excluded communities and barriers to finding decent work opportunities.

Policies to reduce and eradicate poverty therefore need to address both
the demand and supply sides of the labour market in developing countries,
at the same time as shaping strategies for stable and sustainable growth.
Strong community-level action, responsive to local needs and backed up by
a supportive framework of laws and public policies, is a basic building block
for progress. By breaking life cycles of family deprivation on a large scale,
the economy as a whole can move on to a virtuous spiral of sustainable
growth and poverty reduction.

The decent work approach to analysing poverty helps to reveal the key
targets for community-based action and thus can inform and strengthen
national and international partnerships to achieve the Millennium Development
Goals. Within such partnerships, the ILO is dedicated to finding ways
to end social exclusion and enlarge opportunities for more and better jobs.

The ILO’s experience of working with national and local governments
and employers’ and workers’ organizations in developing countries over many
years has formed and tested a comprehensive portfolio of policy tools founded
on enabling communities to work their way out of poverty. The following
chapter reviews this experience and the lessons it provides for a coherent approach
to poverty reduction that links grass-roots initiatives to national and
international strategies by mobilizing people to form and join organizations of
various types, including cooperatives and community groups, trade unions
and employers’ organizations, and other business associations.

Related Articles
  18.0 Conclusion: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in Africa
  1.5 Skills development for sustainable livelihoods: Working Out of Poverty
  Recommendations for future research - Factors Impeding the Poverty Reduction Capacity of Micro-credit: Some Field Observations from Malawi and Ethiopia
  6.0 Propositions and conclusion: Enterprise solutions to poverty
  1.19 Building trust: Working Out of Poverty

Article Tags: business associations, coherent approach, demand and supply, grass roots, international partnerships, international strategies, labour market, life cycles, local governments, millennium development goals, policy tools, poverty reduction, public policies, social exclusion, strong community, supportive framework, sustainable growth, trade unions, work approach, work opportunities



Related Forum Posts
Re: What is Your Favorite Thing About Owning A Business? - [quote="freddyb45":1t3lpfi8]For me it's the fact that all the time and effort you put in is worth a lot more, due to it making you "business" more profitable. Working for yourself is also a positive, although employing people you can trust is quite different.[/quote:1t3lpfi8] I like this idea. Working for yourself means you are investing in your own future, not someone else's, although there is value in working for someone else first to gain experience and confidence. Working for yourself does not automatically mean success, fame and fortune. For most entrepreneurs, it takes much work and dedication to get to the point of financial success and comfort - sometimes years. But the benefit is, again, you know you are investing in yourself and building equity for your own future. GT :-]
Re: What or Who Sparks Your Business Interest - this might be surprise to you, but poverty spark my business interest. Poverty is prevalent in Africa. And I discovered early in life that people that own their businesses are richer than anypne else. I decided to get out of the poverty level and business provided a way of escape.
Re: help wanted in u.k. - Working on it all, a new world to me cheers brendan
Re: What is Your Favorite Thing About Owning A Business? - For me it's the fact that all the time and effort you put in is worth a lot more, due to it making you "business" more profitable. Working for yourself is also a positive, although employing people you can trust is quite different.
Re: When do entrepreneurs retire, if ever? - Entrepreneur don't retire, they die on the job. It is his passion and what he enjoys doing. Rubert Murdock is 77 years old and he is still working. He said he would die fast if he stop working. Working had become his life,joy and passion


Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.

Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.

Tweet

Newsletter

Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!

Name:
Email:

Popular Articles

The Death of the Sales Magazine

A New Year in the Pharmaceutical Industry

What is Discretionary Cash Flow

Suggestions

Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.