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The Child Labour in Developing Countries – A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and it is one of the most striking issues in the developing countries. Hence, there is a need to identify the vulnerable children and point out the problems in relation to the...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Child Labour and Unemployment of Unskilled Labour in a Dual Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

welfare of the working families is likely to improve due to the policy even though the urban unemployment situation of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596424

Mid-day Meal Program and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

policy may be counterproductive as it lowers both the initial incomes of the working families and the return on education …. Direct cash payments to the working families instead of mid-day meal program are likely to be effective in eradicating the …

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Child Rights Convention and its Implementation

Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Child labour is one of the severe problems faced by developed and developing economies. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) adopted on 20 November 1989 and entered into force on 2 September 1990. Nevertheless the challenges faced by the children remained the same. In some of the...

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Child labour in the presence of agricultural dualism: possible cures

Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper using a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and child labour shows that any fiscal measures designed to benefit backward agriculture cannot cure the problem of child labour in a developing economy although they raise the non-child labour income of the poor...

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Labour Market Reform and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

incidence of child labour and economic well-being of the child labour supplying families. A two-sector, full-employment general …. Although this policy is likely to lower the incidence of child labour the welfare of the families supplying child labour … especially when it makes the poor families worse off. …

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Poverty alleviation programs, FDI-led growth and child labour under agricultural dualism

Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

the child labour-supplying families also improves consequently. …

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Agricultural Dualism, Incidence of Child Labour and Subsidy Policies

Dwibedi, Jayanta; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper purports to examine the validity of the common belief that in a developing economy the backward agricultural sector should be subsidized as poorer group of the working population are employed in this sector that send their children out to work out of sheer poverty. A three-sector...

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Health Consequences of Child Labour in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Salma; Ray, Ranjan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper examines the effect of child labour on child health outcomes in Bangladesh. We use self-reported injury or illness due to work as a general measure of health status. Using the Bangladesh National Child Labour Survey data for 2002-2003, the results reveal that child labour is...

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Child labour among Horticultural Households in Bauchi State, Nigeria: A gender perspective

Amao, Ifeoluwapo; Akinlade, Roseline - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The study examined the gender dimension of child labour among horticultural households in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Data were collected on child, household and community characteristics. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics and the multinomial logit regression model at p=0.05. Results...

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