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  The effects of globalization on child labor in developing countries

  AgEcon Search, 2010

  Although child labour shows a decreasing trend according to world statistics, detailed regional studies show some evidence about increases in child labour participation rates with economic growth in those regions.
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  Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD)

  Promotes the collaboration of researchers in the field of population and household economics with a particular interest to the relationships between households, within households and between the famil
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  Living with our Bibi: a qualitative study of children living with grandmothers in the Nshamba area of north western Tanzania

  HelpAge International, 2008

  The Kwa Wazee Project works with grandparents and the grandchildren who live with them (generally orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS) in the Kagera district of Tanzania. The main activity of the Project is to provide a cash transfer in the form of a pension to grandparents (mostly grandmothers). Grannies get small monthly pensions for themselves and for the grandchildren they support.
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  What happened to child labour in Indonesia during the economic crisis: the trade-off between school and work

  SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia, 2005

  Although lower than other developing countries at a similar stage of development, the problem of child labour in Indonesia is significant. Child labour perpetuates poverty. The link between current child labour and future poverty appears to be a lack of adequate and appropriate education.
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  Recommendations from a child rights perspective with regard to joint World Bank and IMF 2005 PRS review

  Kindernothilfe, 2005

  This paper identifies a number of gaps in PRSPs relating to child rights, and makes recommendations to integrate a child rights perspective into PRSPs.The paper provides the following critiques of the PRSPs:no current (I-) PRSP attempts to classify child and youth poverty in its poverty analysismost (I-) PRSPs pay little or no attention to youth unemployment, to the labour condition
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  Working with street children: exploring ways for ADB assistance

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 2003

  This paper examines developmental approaches as a primary goal for assisting street children.
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Globalisation and children’s rights: what role for the private sector?

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This report looks at two aspects of economic globalisation and how they impact on children's rights: foreign private sector investment and the privatisation of basic services.The two major concerns of the authors are that:the investment liberalisation agreements of the WTO are targeting the removal of government entry criteria for foreign investment that ensure such investment benefits
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  Financial globalisation and child wellbeing

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2001

  Looks at the relationship between financial crises associated with foreign capital flows on the one hand and the wellbeing of children in emerging market countries on the other.The literature on child welfare in crises suggests that the level of employment and labour incomes are the key linkage, because these constitute the major component of the incomes of poor families and affect the division
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  African Journals Online (AJOL)

  International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications, 1999

  The International Network for Scientific Publications (INASP) launched AJOL in 1998 with only 14 journals. By January 2004 it had over 175 African journals covering most subject areas. Journals included in AJOL are scholarly in content with peer reviewed articles, and publish a mixture of pure and applied research as well as review papers.

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