Special Employment Programs and Poverty Alleviation

This paper argues that the two main poverty alleviation strategies used in many developing countries—wage employment creation via rural public work or self-employment creation via provision of subsidized credit for purchasing assets—are complementary to each other. Social infrastructure created by w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anil B. Deolalikar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: World Scientific Publishing 1995-01-01
Series:Asian Development Review
Online Access:https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/10.1142/S0116110595000078