Working children and education
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Shocks and household decisions on children's work and schooling in rural Cambodia
- ( L. Guarcello;I. Kovrova;F. C. Rosati / Understanding Children's Work, Innocenti Research Centre , 2007)
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The paper analyses the effect of different shocks on household decisions concerning children’s involvement in work and school in rural Cambodia. It examines the differential impact of three d...
- Developing good practices to help eliminate child labour by consolidating education
- ( M. Jankanish / International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour , 2007)
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This publication includes a broad selection of ILO-IPEC's “good practices” in using education as a key tool to eliminate child labour which will hopefully inspire, motivate and guide th...
- The effect of cocaine reduction policies on child labour, Peru
- ( A. Dammert / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2007)
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What impact do coca eradication policies aimed at reducing the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andes have on households? This paper examines the shift in the production of coca leaves...
How does the proximity to urban centres impact on child labour in Nepal?
- ( M. Fafchamps;J. Wahba / Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn , 2006)
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What is the relationship between child labour and urban proximity? Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labour with a special emphasis on urban proxi...
- Role of non-formal education (NFE) in efforts to achieve EFA and elimination of child labour
- ( F. C. Rosati,;S. Lyon / Understanding Children's Work, Innocenti Research Centre , 2006)
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This paper contributes to the understanding of the interplay between education and child labour which is critical to achieving both Education For All (EFA) and child labour elimination goals. It ex...
- Child domestic labour: an overview and practical responses
- ( B. Suriyasarn / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006)
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Though domestic service work is the single largest employer of working girls worldwide, it is hidden from view and often overlooked in statistics on child labour.
This paper presents an... - What is wrong with new laws against child labour in India?
- ( N. Reddy;I. Srinath;J. Seabrooke / The Concerned for Working Children , 2006)
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Could India’s child labour laws be doing more harm than good? In 2006 the Government of India introduced new laws against the employment of children under the age of 14 in domestic work, agri...
- Early parenthood and poverty (but not work) contribute to early school leaving among Brazil’s poor
- ( A.R Cardoso; D. Verner / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 2007)
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This paper uses statistical analysis to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in the urban shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil.
Based on surveys of ...
- Quality education for girls is a prerequisite for stopping girl child labour
- ( UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , 2006)
- In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and second...
- Impact of conditional cash transfer programme on school enrolment in Colombia
- ( O. Attanasio; E. Fitzsimons; A. Gomez; D. Lopez; C. Meghir; A. Mesnard / Institute for Fiscal Studies, London , 2006)
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This paper studies the effects of Familias en Acción, a conditional cash transfer programme implemented in rural areas in Colombia in 2002, on school enrolment and child labour.
The authors find tha...
