Kenya: Comparing cash-transfer and job-creation programmes

What links employment and poverty? This International Poverty Centre paper examines the links between poverty and unemployment, underemployment, employment and labour earnings in Kenya. It finds that poor workers need short-term social protection and all workers need an effective, long-term and employment-focused development strategy. The paper simulates the potential impact of two programmes designed to provide income support to poor households: a cash-transfer programme based on the number of school-age children, and a job creation programme.