Wages of the poor: Insights from the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey in Q3/Q4 2025

A Myint Zu, Bart Minten and Joanna van Asselt

No 129, Project notes from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: We assess the wage levels and food purchasing power of casual laborers, who are among the poorest segment of the population, using data from the Myanmar Household Welfare Survey (MHWS) collected in the second half of 2025, and compare these results with earlier survey rounds.

Keywords: remuneration; poverty; costs; labour costs; workers; working class; Myanmar; Asia; South-eastern Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-01-26
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