This year, the Anker Research Institute updated and published approximately 90 living income and living wage reports, accounting for inflation, during its annual update process. This significant effort involved the collaborative work of a dedicated group of researchers and reviewers, supported by the Anker Research Institute’s communication and administration team. Each update was meticulously executed, […]
Announcements
The latest news and announcements from the Global Living Wage Coalition.
Supporting decent wages for Bangladesh’s garment workers
The Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) extends its solidarity to the workers of Bangladesh and their supporters advocating for higher wages. We support workers in their demand for decent wages, which are in line with independent Living Wage Benchmark estimates published by the Anker Research Institute and GLWC. There have been reports of unions and […]
2023 Updates for MENA & Sub-Saharan African Countries
All new 2023 Benchmark and Reference Value updates for several countries in MENA & Sub-Saharan African countries are now available from the GLWC and Anker Research Institute. 2023 updates are available for: Rural Republic of Congo Rural Democratic Republic of Congo Rural and Urban Gabon Rural Morocco Rural Mozambique Rural Tunisia Rural Egypt Rural Burkina […]
New Reference Values for Togo and Cameroon
The GLWC and Anker Research Institute are delighted to announce new 2023 Reference Values for Togo and Cameroon. The Reference Values for Togo estimate the wage a worker in rural and urban areas of Togo would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living and the Living Wage Reference Value for […]
New Updates for Countries in Asia & the Pacific Islands
All new 2023 Benchmark and Reference Value updates for several countries in Asia and the Pacific Islands are now available from the GLWC and Anker Research Institute. 2023 updates are available for: China (Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhengzhou) India (Rural Andhra Pradesh, Rural Madhya Pradesh, Tiruppur, Rural Nilgris, Rural Uttar Pradesh) Cambodia (Urban) Sri […]
2023 Updates: Zambia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya & Uganda
All new 2023 Benchmark and Reference Value updates for Sub-Saharan Africa are now available from the GLWC and Anker Research Institute. New Benchmark updates are available for: Zambia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda. All of the updated studies have been updated to account for changes in inflation, exchange rates, costs of living, and policy changes […]
New 2023 Benchmark & Reference Value Updates
All new 2023 Benchmark and Reference Value updates for banana-growing regions around the world are now available from the GLWC and Anker Research Institute. New Benchmark updates are available for: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Michoacán, Mexico, and Northwest Nicaragua. New Reference Value updates are available for Panama, Peru, Cameroon, and […]
Analysis of Gender & the Anker Methodology Explores Pay Equality on Equal Pay Day
While equal pay for men and women doing the same work is increasingly common, there are often wide gaps between the average pay of all men in an organisation compared to the average pay of all women, and closing these gender pay gaps is proving difficult. Over the past two years, the Anker Research Institute […]
Tea production in Assam and West Bengal: Are stakeholders ready to advance on living wages for workers?
The concept of living wages is based on the fundamental principle that workers should earn sufficiently to afford a decent standard of living for themselves and their families. Although some might argue that the concept is abstract and alien, its roots lie in the Preamble to the ILO Constitution, adopted by governments in 1919, that […]
ICO’s Coffee Public Private Task Force brings attention to decent standard of living for coffee farmers worldwide
Commissioned and financed by the ICO Coffee Public-Private Task Force’s Living-Prosperous Income Workstream, the ICO is partnering with the Anker Research Institute to undertake Anker Living Income Benchmarks, robust studies of the costs of a decent standard of living, for smallholder coffee farmers in key origins: Ethiopia, Indonesia, Mexico and Vietnam. The Anker Research Institute […]
