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Recession and child labor: A theoretical analysis

by Sahana Roy Chowdhury ICRIER Working Paper no.266, April 2013 Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards ‘inclusive growth’. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of  major domestic or external spillovers (policy related or recessionary shocks) on child labor market, in contrary to other labor markets, [...]

Recession and child labor: A theoretical analysis

by sahana Roy Chowdhury ICRIER Working Paper no.266, April 2013 Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards’inclusivce growth’. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of  major domestic or external spillovers (policy related or recessionary shocks) on child labor market, in contrary to other labor markets, [...]

Child Labour & Inclusive Education in Backward Districts of India

by Chandan Roy and Jitan Barman MPRA Paper n.43643, November 2012 India has five million working children which is more than two percent of the total child population in the age group of 5-14 years. Despite existence of legal prohibitions, several socio-economic situations ranging from dearth of poverty, over–fertility, non-responsive education system to poor access [...]

Corporate Governance and Child Labour

by Nathan Dev and Ann George Economic and Political Weekly, December 15, 2012 Reviewing case studies that examine the role of corporate governance initiatives to eliminate child labour from the production process, the authors examine the important distinction between eliminating and ending child labour from production networks as the former deals with the demand-side while [...]

Loan Regulation and Child Labor in Rural India

by Basab Dasgupta and Christian Zimmermann IZA DP  No. 6979, October 2012 We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal and informal lending, human capital accumulation, adverse selection, and differentiated risk types. Specifically, we build a model economy that replicates the current outcome with [...]

Sugar goes sour

by Priyanka Dubey/New Delhi Tehelka/07 August 2012 Are we eating sugar which small kids are producing as bonded labour? FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Mahendra Singh used to live with his parents and two siblings in the Jahangirpuri slum area of New Delhi until the morning he was abducted, trafficked and then callously ‘sold’ to a sugarcane farmer of [...]

Toiling Children in India: The Gender Dimension

Rajnish Kumar, Arup Mitra and Mayumi Murayama IDE-JETRO Discussion Paper No. 352.  April 2012 Child labour in several low income households is rather pursued for gaining experience and at times for meagre incomes, which are possibly spent on household food expenditure. Though the contribution made by the child labour to the overall wellbeing does not [...]

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