Recognising the importance of wage work in the income streams and resilience of the poor, BEAM Exchange and USAID’s Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project organised and hosted an open, online discussion on the links between wage work, poverty, and market systems development. This report summaries the main findings.
The discussion took place in May-June 2015, and brought together 229 participants from 38 countries, including market development practitioners, labour economists, researchers, and technical representatives at donor agencies amongst others. In total, 54 different people contributed nearly 400 posts.