Investing in Every Child: An economic study of the costs and benefits of eliminating child labour
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Publisher: ILO/IPEC
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Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0922115419
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Publisher: ILO/IPEC
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Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 0922115419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
Publisher: International Labour Organisation
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9789221154198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne in every six children aged 5 to 17 worldwide is exploited by child labour in its different forms, according to estimates made by the ILO in 2002. Many of these children are forced to risk their health and their lives and mortgage their future as productive adults.The report draws on a large range of data, including detailed country data from Brazil, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Ukraine, Pakistan, Nepal and the Philippines. More information has raised awareness of the scale of the problem and given new urgency to developing and financing policies and programmes to remove children from work situations. More knowledge has also provoked new questions about the cost of removing children from work, providing them witheducation and ensuring them a decent childhood. At the same time, policymakers are also enquiring to what extent the effective abolition of child labour will pay off for national development and poverty reduction, and how children and their families stand to gain.
Author: International Labour Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781280061134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alessandro Cigno
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-07-28
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0191532606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChildren throughout the world are engaged in a great number of activities classifiable as work. These range from relatively harmless, even laudable, activities like helping parents in their domestic chores, to morally and physically dangerous ones like soldiering and prostitution. If we leave out the former, we are left with what are generally called "economic" activities. Only a small minority, less than 4 percent of all working children, are estimated to be engaged in what ILO defines as the "unconditional" worst forms of child labour. The absolute number of children estimated to be engaged in the latter is, however, a stunning 8.4 million. Should we only be concerned about the worst forms of child labour? Most forms of child labour other than the worst ones have valuable learning-by-doing elements. Furthermore, child labour produces current income. If the family is credit rationed, child labour relaxes the liquidity constraint and increases current consumption. There is thus a trade-off between present and future consumption. To the extent that current consumption has a positive effect on future health (hence, on the child's future earning capacity and, more generally, utility), this trade-off may be lower than one might think. This book provides a blend of theory, empirical analysis and policy discussion. The first three chapters develop a fairly comprehensive theory of child labour, and related variables such as fertility, and infant mortality. Chapter 4, concerned with the effects of trade, contains both theory and cross-country empirical evidence. The remaining chapters are country studies, aimed at illustrating and testing different aspects of the theory in different geographical contexts. These chapters apply the latest developments in microeconometric methodology for dealing with endogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and the evaluation of public intervention.
Author: UNICEF.
Publisher: UNICEF
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9280639161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2006 edition of UNICEF's annual report focuses on the millions of children who are most in need of access to essential education, health and protection services, but who are also the hardest to reach and often overlooked by current development programmes. These include children living in the poorest countries and most deprived communities within countries, children who face discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity or disability, children caught up in armed conflicts or affected by HIV/AIDS, children who lack a formal identity and who suffer from abuse and exploitation. The report examines the factors which result in their exclusion from current child development programmes and services, and highlights the policy options and actions required to address these challenges, in order to ensure all children benefit from the progress being made to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Topics discussed include: income disparities and child survival, the marginalisation of Roma communities and their children, disability issues, children and HIV/AIDS, children living on the streets, early marriages, child labour, child protection and child rights.
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9789221218739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn its quadrennial Global Report on child labour, the ILO says that the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 per cent, over the period 2004 to 2008, representing a "slowing down of the global pace of reduction." The report also expresses concern that the global economic crisis could "further brake" progress toward the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
Author: Jennifer E. Lansford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0190847123
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is unique in bringing together cutting-edge research on adolescent development with a focus on policies and interventions directed toward adolescents. The book is also distinctive in its focus on issues that uniquely affect adolescents in low- and middle-income countries.
Author: Franziska Humbert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-08-27
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0521764904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFranziska Humbert analyses how the prohibition of child labour is protected under international law and proposes an agenda for reform.
Author: International Organization for Migration
Publisher: Academic Foundation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9788171885503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda S Spedding
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2007-11-14
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 0750681748
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a practice-oriented overview of risk management issues with particular reference to identifying and measuring risk. Looks at some of the current risk issues and the concept of organisations creating a 'Sustainable Enterprise Risk Management' (SERM) methodology to encapsulate these risk areas with more traditional areas of risk management. Includes examples and case studies. Examines new research on the social and environmental categories of sustainability related risks.