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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

Labor market --- Wages --- Poverty --- Labor productivity --- Marché du travail --- Salaires --- Pauvreté --- Productivité --- Labor market. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Marché du travail --- Pauvreté --- Productivité --- Labor output --- Productivity of labor --- Destitution --- Compensation --- Departmental salaries --- Earnings --- Pay --- Remuneration --- Salaries --- Wage-fund --- Wage rates --- Working class --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Supply and demand --- Industrial productivity --- Capital productivity --- Hours of labor --- Labor time --- Productivity bargaining --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Income --- Labor costs --- Compensation management --- Cost and standard of living --- Prices --- Markets