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The paper is purported to explore the implications of a credit market reform policy and an overall economic expansion through inflows of foreign capital on the incidence of child labour using a three-sector general equilibrium model. A separate household sector producing child labour has been...
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Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce …
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Not all FDI are alike as far as their impact on various dimensions of human development is concerned. This paper focuses, in particular, on child labor and it undertakes a cross-country empirical analysis of this issue, using data on 100 countries spanning the period 1990-2009. Unlike earlier...
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This paper examines the extent to which foreign direct investment (FDI) affects child labor. Using 1995 data for 145 countries, we find that, contrary to common fears, FDI is negatively correlated with child labor. This effect, however, disappears when controlling for per capita income. After...
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