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5.9 Employment and enterprise development: Working Out of Poverty

Written by: International Labour Organization

Article Overview: Analysis of trends in employment to identify sectoral or regional patterns of growth or decline. Improving the information base on where people work and how much they earn, labour force participation and household incomes, disaggregated by sex and age.

5.9 Employment and enterprise development: Working Out of Poverty

● Analysis of trends in employment to identify sectoral or regional patterns
of growth or decline. Improving the information base on where
people work and how much they earn, labour force participation and
household incomes, disaggregated by sex and age.
● An assessment of the skill base, future needs, the quality of education
and training systems and the whole range of employability issues.
● Evaluation of the conditions facing micro and small businesses and
measures needed to help this sector grow and employ more people in
better conditions.
● Opportunities for increased employment in rural areas and improved
performance of agriculture, including improving the transport and
communications infrastructure with labour-intensive investments.
● Financial services to poor communities and small businesses.
● The scope for communities, workers and micro businesses to develop
cooperatives as a way of improving their livelihoods.
● The role of stronger enterprises, such as large national companies or
foreign investors, in joining with communities to tackle underemployment
and poverty.
● The promotion of technological development geared to poverty reduction.

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Article Tags: communications infrastructure, cooperatives, decline, employment in rural areas, financial services, foreign investors, household incomes, investments, labour force participation, livelihoods, micro businesses, poor communities, poverty reduction, quality of education, regional patterns, scope, skill base, small businesses, technological development, underemployment



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