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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 … subjective health across age groups, we find that health disadvantages for different age groups are not essentially parallel. …
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Using a three-sector specific-factor Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model the paper demonstrates how an inflow of foreign capital might produce favourable effect on the incidence of child labour in a small open dual economy. The welfare of the working families is likely to improve due to...
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The present paper purports to examine the consequence of mid-day meal program and/or cash stipend scheme on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy using a three-sector general equilibrium model. It has been found that the policy may be counterproductive as it lowers both the...
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by the children remained the same. In some of the African and Asian countries children are exposed to vulnerable … problems of children in many developing countries. An attempt is also made to highlight what may be termed as tentative … children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …
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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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The paper is purported to examine the consequences of possible labour market reform in the developing economies on the incidence of child labour and economic well-being of the child labour supplying families. A two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium structure with child labour and...
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children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication …
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The paper is aimed at providing a theoretical explanation why policies that affect only the supply side of the child labour problem may not be able to mitigate the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with agricultural dualism and...
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sector should be subsidized as poorer group of the working population are employed in this sector that send their children …
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the multinomial logit regression model at p=0.05. Results showed that more female children were attending school only (29 ….30%) than males (18.85%). Male children participated more in work outside the home such as work on family farm (74.62%) while … age of both male and female children increases the likelihood of their involvement in child labour. Household ownership of …
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