Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134) and index.
Acronyms and Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 Definitions and Data; Chapter 3 Country Context; Chapter 4 Growth, Employment, and Labor Productivity; Chapter 5 Relating Aggregate and Sectoral Labor Productivity with Earnings; Chapter 6 Linking Employment and Earnings with Poverty; Tables; Chapter 7 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs; Boxes; Chapter 8 Conclusions and Suggestionsfor a Way Forward; References; Figures; Index.
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Poor people derive most of their income from work; however, there is insufficient understanding of the role of employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and earnings for given growth levels, this study explores this linkage in the case of Madagascar using data from the national accounts and household surveys from the years 1999, 2001, and 2005, a period characterized among others by a short but se.