As rule always ignore the headlines and focus on the details. Actually the article contains very little details about the actual research methodology and data.

As rule always ignore the headlines and focus on the details. Actually the article contains very little details about the actual research methodology and data. If poverty reduction in short term is the only objective then I am pretty sure increasing minimum wages will bring some people above the poverty line set at a time before increasing the wages. But whether that reduction ins poverty is sustainable over a decade or so is the important question.