Most workers are interested in preventive health care education and female workers in particular would like to learn more about reproductive health, early childhood care, and family nutrition. Most workers are interested in community involvement. They also believe that a factory can play an important role in supporting surrounding communities. Many of my colleagues have asked the question, but the rationale is simple. The world faces continuing increases in the number of people living in poverty, and worsening income inequality in many countries, particularly gender-related inequalities.
Economic growth is usually a necessary condition for poverty reduction.
We know that the poor need expanding economic opportunities if they are to improve their chances. But growth is not being achieved in most developing countries and the critical issue is how best to achieve the kind of rapid and sustainable expansion in which the poor participate fully. Over the last two decades, developing countries have moved increasingly towards market-oriented economic policies to achieve such expansion and to promote poverty reduction. But this unprecedented move to markets has become one of the most contentious issues in development policy. Critics say that market liberalization has been too fast, that it has increased poverty and deepened inequality, rather than reducing them.