We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of...

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...

Recent ILO global child labour estimates point to important progress in the fight against child labour across most regions. But these figures predate the current global financial crisis. There are fears that that the crisis could slow or even reverse progress in the hardest hit countries. This...