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Child Labour in Bangladesh - An Analysis of Gaps and Weaknesses of the Existing Legal Framework

Norpoth, Johannes; Groß, Lukas; Aktar, Rahima - 2014

Child labour, particularly in its worst forms, harms the health and general welfare of children. It is considered to be a decisive impediment to the development efforts of developing countries. Working children drop out of school early and the resulting comparative lack of knowledge and skills...

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Intellectual property rights in regional trade agreements of Asia-Pacific economies

Puutio, Teemu Alexander - 2013

. At the turn of the millennium there were less than 10 agreements containing IPRs in the Asia- Pacific. At the end of … April 2013, 51 trade agreements that include IPR provisions were in some stage of existence, according to Asia-Pacific Trade … have become common subject matter for bilateral and multilateral treaties in the Asia- Pacific. Not all agreements give …

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Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - 2003

The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...

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The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labour and School Attendance

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2004

Child labour has always been one of the core concerns of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). In this paper, we investigate whether ILO conventions have contributed to reducing the scale of the problem. We use two approaches to answering the question. Evidence based on country-level data...

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How children's schooling and work are affected when their father leaves permanently: Evidence from Colombia

Fitzsimons, Emla; Mesnard, Alice - 2012

This paper investigates how the permanent departure of the father from the household affects children's school enrolment and work participation in rural Colombia. Our results show that departure of the father decreases children's school enrolment by around 4 percentage points, and increases...

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The Supply of Child Labour

Cigno, Alessandro - 2004

The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child labour, a modern form of slavery closely associated...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C.; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Child labor, urban proximity and household composition

Fafchamps, Marcel; Wahba, Jackline - 2006

Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend school more and work less in total but are more likely to be involved in wage work or in a small...

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The relation between child labour and mother's work: The case of India

Francavilla, Francesca; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2007

The paper deals with child labour in developing countries. We address a problem that has recently drawn much attention at the international level, that is, how to invest in women's rights to advance the rights of both women and children. We study the problem from a new perspective. In our...

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Remittances, liquidity constraints and human capital investments in Ecuador

Calero, Carla; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - 2008

Over the last decade Ecuador has experienced a strong increase in financial transfers from migrated workers, amounting to 6.4 percent of GDP and 31.5 percent of total exports of goods and services in 2005. This paper investigates how remittances via trans-national networks affect human capital...

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