Download or read book Higher Wages for Relief Work Can Make Many of the Poor Worse Off written by Martin Ravallion and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guaranteed employment can be valuable insurance against poverty. But the recent experience in Maharashtra suggests that raising the wage rate when you don't have the budget to pay for it is not in the interests of all the poor. Some get higher pay, but others must go without relief work.