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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection … categorized as ‘non-workers not attending school’ within the count of child labourers. It is also suggested that poverty is …
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We examine the effects of trade liberalization on child work in Indonesia. Our estimation strategy identifies geographical differences in the effects of trade policy through district level exposure to reduction in import tariff barriers. We use a balanced panel of 261 districts, based on four...
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Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the … significantly reduce poverty. The critical issue has been how to generate the needed resources domestically, using tax instruments … the tax system in Ghana over the last two decades and suggests ways to improve tax administration in the country. …
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poverty reduction; and second, that savings do Granger-cause poverty reduction in Ghana. Also, the effect of financial sector … development on poverty reduction is positive but insignificant. This is due to the fact that financial intermediaries in Ghana …The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in …
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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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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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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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poverty. In recent years Bangladesh has taken various measures, including legal measures, to address the situation. This paper …
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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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