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What works to reduce child labor in agriculture? In this paper, we evaluate two randomized livelihood intervention programs, aimed to reduce child labor, particularly in its most exploitative forms, in rural areas of Peru and the Philippines. In the first randomized experiment, we evaluate a...
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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...
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This manuscript investigates the extent to which children contribute to the household’s agricultural activities. The conclusion that children play an important role in the farming activities of Ugandan agricultural households is supported by two key findings: (i) Child labour accounts for...
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of the child labour problem in rural India. The paper is divided into various sections. This Section are with history of … gender dimensions of child labour and Nowhere Children in Rural India. Section V deals with sectoral distribution of child … of the existing policy responses to the challenge of child labor in rural India and elsewhere and the need for their …
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