This paper looks in detail at the relationship between the intensity of children's work (i.e., children's weekly working hours) and children's health outcomes, making use of household survey data from Bangladesh, Brazil, and Cambodia. The paper focuses only on the subset of children at work in...

This current report will contribute to a larger study geared towards examining the cost and resource requirements to achieve the ILO global targets for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016 and for achieving the national targets for child labour reduction by 2015, as set...

Child labour in Bolivia is analysed applying two recent surveys, MECOVI 2000 (World Bank) and MICS 2000 (UNICEF). The analysis aims at contrasting and comparing the survey findings relating to the incidence and characteristics of children’s work. The extent to which the findings are...

Anti-poverty policy in developing countries has focused mainly on the measurement and location of poverty and the targeting of policy towards those who are currently poor. Recently, the research effort has been extended to cover those judged to be not poor at present but vulnerable to poverty in...

A large proportion of Ivorian children must grow up in the absence of one or both birth parents. In all, 13 percent of children aged 0-14 years of age are orphans, the second highest orphan rate in the West Africa region. There is also a large group of children, accounting for about 15 percent...

El presente documento analiza la participación laboral de niños y niñas en Venezuela entre 1998 y 2007. El objetivo principal es establecer una aproximación cuantitativa de las formas de trabajo prohibidas en función de la legislación nacional y la normativa internacional. Las estimaciones...

This paper will provide a review of impact evaluations of policies up to 2007 relating to child labor prevention and protection. The aim of this review is to provide a summary of these impact evaluations in an attempt to draw some best practice lessons, but also to assess the state of art in...

The study begins by providing a profile of working children in Venezuela for the 2000 reference year. This snapshot of the situation of working children is then used to provide a basis for examining the impact on children’s work produced by the economic crisis which hit the country during the...

The strong link between water access and child health is well-documented. Much less is known about how water access affects children's activity patterns. Empirical evidence presented in this paper indicates that providing households with ready water access makes it much more likely that the...

Recent years have seen a sustained progress in the fight against child labour. The current global economic and financial crisis can potentially reverse the positive trends observed in several countries and further aggravate the problem in regions such as Sub Saharan Africa where the phenomenon...