The agendas of those trying to reduce poverty and those trying to protect the environment have been at odds in the past. But they are coming together now due to a recognition of the increasing role of the environment in the lives of the poor in developing countries, especially with the changes to the environment being caused by global warming. This book contains a multitude of studies of the environment-poverty relationship, such as those in the drylands of ...
Despite its highly labour-intensive nature and potential for employment generation, the informal economy has come to epitomize subsistence production or petty trade, which is invariably linked to poverty and exploitation. About 35 per cent of the working population in this sector lies below the poverty line. Due to its large size, difficulty in collecting data, and the migratory tendencies of both labour and firms, regulatory authorities have found it difficult ...
