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The case for living wages: How paying living wages improves business performance and tackles poverty

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Peer-reviewed

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Report

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Authors

Gilbert, Richard 
Beales, Annabel 
Zorila, Marina 
Nelson, Jane 

Abstract

The payment of living wages remains one of the most powerful routes to help people out of poverty, start to tackle inequality, realise human rights and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is growing recognition that poverty wages pose a significant barrier to progress on all these issues.

This paper shows an exciting new momentum towards living wages, coming from businesses, investors and numerous civil society organisations.

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Keywords

business benefits, business performance, investment, living wage, minimum wage, poverty, social sustainability, supply chain, value chain, working poverty

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Publisher

Business Fights Poverty, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and Shift
Sponsorship
Unilever