Eliminating child labour, while a key policy goal in itself, is also a necessary starting point for achieving decent work for all. This second World Report on Child Labour highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for unified...

Incidence of child labour continues despite a glut of legislative provisions and awareness campaigns run by a large number of well-intentioned non-governmental organizations. This is mainly because of mass poverty and tradition of servitude among the child labour supplying families....

Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment...

Objective – It is observed that the phenomena of working children is a long standing issue in most under-developed and developing countries of the world and the number increases each year in the light of challenging domestic social and economic conditions. The question is whether the relevant...