IDS was asked by the Department of International Development Uganda to assist Uganda’s Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development in their efforts to mainstream social protection concerns throughout Uganda’s revised Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP).
Phase I Report: ‘Vulnerability Assessment and Review of Initiatives’:
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Minimum wage legislation aims to reduce poverty by raising the wages of the poorest workers towards or above the poverty line. Despite their intuitive appeal, minimum wages are controversial. The sceptics' argument that raising wages will create disemployment is compounded by the difficulties of...
10 August 2018
IDS Working Paper 232
Social protection describes all public and private initiatives that provide income or consumption transfers to the poor, protect the vulnerable against livelihood risks, and enhance the social status and rights of the marginalised; with the overall objective of reducing the economic and social...
1 January 2004