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Table 6 Summary of the different wage sources

From: The health and economic benefits of the global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (2000–2014)

WHO region

ILO LABORSTA (farm worker average wage)

World Bank (average value per agricultural worker)

ILO (minimum wage)

US State Department (minimum wage)

Overall average – maximum of sourcesa

Overall average – minimum of sourcesa

AMRO

$6.90

$27.36

$5.27

$5.17

$27.36

$5.11

AFRO

$1.92

$8.18

$2.06

$2.16

$9.05

$1.01

EMRO

$4.84

$18.26

$3.19

$5.00

$18.26

$3.00

WPRO

$5.36

$9.06

$6.81

$6.74

$10.70

$4.98

SEARO

$1.80

$3.47

$1.77

$3.75

$4.04

$1.47

Average

$2.02

$5.10

$2.10

$3.42

$5.84

$1.50

  1. AMRO Region of the Americas, AFRO African Region, EMRO Eastern Mediterranean Region, WPRO Western Pacific Region, SEARO South-East Asia Region, ILO International labour organization
  2. Results in this paper use the “Overall average – minimum of sources” estimates
  3. Values shown are weighted averages (based on the benefit cohort population size in each country)
  4. aThe overall maximum and minimum averages were estimated from all sources for each country individually, and then averaged by region (which is why the values are smaller than the regional database averages)
  5. Costs are expressed in US$ 2014 prices
  6. For countries not listed in the database, the lowest value within the same region was used as a proxy
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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