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...

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...

Foreword -- Preface -- Child labour: definition, history and survey of existing literature and policies -- Derivation of supply functions of child labour from household behaviour -- Trade sanction and child labour -- Why do composite policies sometimes fail? -- Is reduction of poverty a...