{"id":279100,"date":"2019-06-17T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvZXRoaW9waWFuLXdvcmtlcnMtZm91bmQtYmUtZWFybmluZy1sb3dlci1wb3ZlcnR5LXdhZ2Vz0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:26","slug":"uk-researchers-said-many-ethiopian-construction-and-factory-workers-earned-below-poverty-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279100","title":{"rendered":"UK researchers said many Ethiopian construction and factory workers earned below poverty wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia said economists at UK-based institutions found that many semi-skilled and unskilled Ethiopian workers in construction and manufacturing earned less than poverty-level wages.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-423532\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"UK researchers said many Ethiopian construction and factory workers earned below poverty wages\" \/>\n<p>The paper framed the finding as evidence that industrial-job growth alone did not guarantee living incomes for workers in those sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as labor archive, the Reporter story dates the mid-2019 poverty-wage finding on Ethiopian industrial workers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/ethiopian-workers-found-be-earning-lower-poverty-wages\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian workers found to be earning lower than &#8220;poverty wages&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaEconomists of UK-based institutions have found out that Ethiopian semi-skilled and unskilled workers are employed in the construction and manufacturing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":423532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Textile-and-garment-workers-in-Hawassa-industrial-Park.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aBC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755240,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279100\/revisions\/755240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}