Holdings: Sewing Success? Employment, Wages, and Poverty following the End of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Sewing Success? Employment, Wages, and Poverty following the End of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

The global textile and apparel sector is critically important as an early phase in industrialization for many developing countries and as a provider of employment opportunities to thousands of low-income workers, many of them women. The goal of this book is to explore how the lifting of the Multi-fi...

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Main Authors:	Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys, Robertson, Raymond
Language:	en_US
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2013
Subjects:	absolute terms access to government age distribution aging populations basic benefit basic needs basic pension benefit level Benefit Levels Center for Population changes in fertility Chronic Poverty chronically poor Consumption poverty consumption smoothing contribution records coresidence Cultural Change demographic change Demographic projections Demographic Transition demographic trends dependency ratio Dependency Ratios determinant of poverty determinants of poverty Developing Countries dissemination economic growth Economic Transition Elderly Elderly Households elderly men elderly people elderly persons elderly population elderly women employment opportunities Employment Status family income family members family planning Family Planning Commission family size Family Support farm labor fertility Fertility Policies fertility rate fertility rates funded pensions future generations global population government pensions gross domestic product guaranteed rate health care health insurance higher incidence of poverty Household Consumption Household Head household income household incomes Household Poverty human capital Human Development ill health illness incidence of poverty income distribution income inequality Income poverty Income Quintile Income Risk income shock income support Individual Account Individual Accounts Inflation Rate informal sector intergenerational transfers internal migration Labor Force Participation labor income labor market labor markets Labor Supply legal status life expectancy living conditions local capacity local development local economy low fertility Male Labor Force Migrant migrant family migrant workers Migrants Migration mortality National Fertility national level national pension national policy Nutrition Old Age Old Age Support Old-Age older people Pension Pension Benefit pension benefits pension coverage pension income Pension Indicators pension policy Pension Policy Reform Pension Programs Pension Scheme pension schemes Pension System Pension Systems pensionable age Pensions persistent poverty Policy makers Policy Research Policy Research Working Paper policy response Political Economy Poor Poor Areas Poor People Poor Rural Households poorer households Population and Development population census Population Center Population Growth population growth rate Population Projections Population Research Population Statistics population structure Population Trends poverty assessment poverty gap poverty head poverty incidence Poverty index poverty level Poverty Line Poverty Measures Poverty Poverty poverty rate poverty rates poverty severity poverty status Private Transfers public policy public support reduction in poverty remittance remittances respect Retirement retirement ages retirement decisions Rural rural areas Rural Economy Rural Household rural incomes rural men rural migrants rural people rural poor Rural Population Rural Population Growth rural populations rural poverty rural residents rural workers safety nets savings Social Affairs social assistance Social Insurance Social Pension Social Pensions Social Protection social protection mechanisms Social Sciences Social Security social security benefits social security system social services social support social welfare spatial differences spillover spouse State University support falls targeting United Nations Population Division Urban Areas urban migration urban population urbanization village leaders Vulnerability Vulnerability to Poverty Working-Age Population World Population Young adult young adults young people
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