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 … females were involved in household chores (56.69%) they also spent more time in these activities than in school. Increasing …

on the issue. It is argued that in developing countries with poverty, inequality, social norms, credit-land-labour market … inherent factors responsible for this especially the role of poverty is examined in this research note. …

higher among girls. Poverty emerges to be necessary condition thereby preparing the breeding ground but not sufficient to …. This includes not only the physical but also the human component, which is emerging to be more crucial. Poverty alleviation …

of poverty on child labour and child soldier. An attempt is made in this article to highlight and critically examine the …

The problem of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever poverty exists, child labour there prevails and … children and point out the problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly poverty eradication … household labour supply decisions, considering relations to the labour market and to public interventions is critical in …

This study assesses the impact of income and asset poverty on child work using the rural sub-sample of the 2004 Malawi … Integrated Household Survey. Instrumenting consumption expenditure with a location dummy variable and interacting consumption … expenditure with household land-holding size in probit models, the likelihood of child labour is found to relate negatively with …

redistribution are necessary for poverty reduction. For growth theoreticians, economic growth must be pursued while for political … the effect of these variables using two recent national household survey data sets collected by the National Bureau of … statistics in 1996 and 2004 upon which we applied three commonly used poverty indices(FGT) and the Shapely decomposition …

poverty in Pakistan. The study decomposes education of the household into different levels: primary, middle, matriculation …This study examines household characteristics and personal characteristics of the household head as the determinants of …, intermediate, bachelors and higher studies and finds evidence that poverty is greatest among the less literate households and …

This paper deals with the effects of migrants remittances on poverty in Senegal. Data were extracted from the …. The results also indicate that richer households are more affected by remittances. The poverty headcount and poverty gap … are reduced in presence of remittance while the severity of poverty is worsened. …