This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on … rural poor into school. It documents how the objects of policy – rural poor children and parents - are ‘seen’ by the …

Poverty is one of the factors which contribute for the child labour but it is not the only factor, there are other …

dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do not learn very much because of a range of … of teachers and quality of schools. Once children reach school, a variety of factors determine whether they will continue … formal education. If and when children do drop out due to poverty/migration, rigid gender roles or other economic factors …

from an NGO-run school in Calcutta to illustrate the role of a school child’s sense of ‘belonging’ in determining how …

Focuses on two areas, analysis of poverty, and an employment generation strategy. …

effective choice is between work and school or whether leisure is involved. Credit market constraints tend to dilute the … positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan … Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects …