Decent Work And Poverty Eradication: Focus On Micro-entrepreneur Recharge-card Vendors

ABSTRACTThe essence of this study is the need to measure and ascertain whether recharge-card vendors earn daily income that surpasses the $1.25 poverty bench-mark set by the United Nations and also to determine whether the trade can be qualified as decent according to the International Labour Organization’s standard. The population size of this study includes all recharge-card retailers in Benin City, Edo State and a sample size of 105 respondents were chosen during the duration of the fieldwork. The method adopted in this research is descriptive in nature. The data used in this study were obt…