Overcoming the twin challenges of child labor and educational marginalization will be critical to progress towards the millennium development goals in the Economic commission for West Africa States (ECOWAS)...
Overcoming the twin challenges of child labor and educational marginalization will be critical to progress towards the millennium development goals in the Economic commission for West Africa States (ECOWAS)...
The report shows that the decline in child labor in Mexico did not happen by itself, much of the decline can be traced to active efforts across a range of policy areas. Particularly important were active...
The present report assesses labor market conditions in the new state of South Sudan (officially the Republic of South Sudan). It highlights a number of key challenges faced by the new country in ensuring...
Domestic work remains one of the most common and traditional forms of work for children, particularly for girls. Child domestic work is carried out in private homes, and thus it is hidden from view and...
The study addresses the comparability of child labor estimates produced by different common household survey instruments. This question has important implications for credibility of published estimates...
The study assesses trends in children's involvement in employment and schooling in Andhra Pradesh over the eleven-year period from 1994 to 2005. Considerable progress was made in getting children out of...
Education is a key element in the prevention of child labor; at the same time, child labor is one of the main obstacles to Education for All (EFA). Understanding the interplay between education and child...
Worldwide, an estimated 104 million children are working. Many of them have never attended school or have dropped out very early. About two-thirds of them are girls. Considering that most if not all of...
Education is a key element in the prevention of child labor; at the same time, child labor is one of the main obstacles to Education for All (EFA). Understanding the interplay between education and child...
This paper aims to identify the appropriate policy response to substantially reduce child labor and review key policy options. Key policy options fall with the broad categories of prevention, second chances...
School attendance incentive schemes essentially compensate families for the direct and indirect costs associated with children attending school rather than working. The primary benefit of these programs...
Ethiopia accounts for the largest youth population in Sub-Saharan Africa and the lack of employment opportunities for Ethiopian young people is among the critical developing challenges facing the country...
The study examines the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region from a gender perspective. It represents part of a broader effort to improve understanding of how child labour...
The authors analyze child work in Zambia applying two recent surveys, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) 1998 (World Bank) and the Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labor...
In Georgia, the lack of employment opportunities and with it, the loss of positive motivation and hope in a better future, is among the critical challenges facing the current generation of young people...
While youth issues are subject of growing attention in the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region, data for indicators relating specifically to youth employment remain scarce in most SSA countries. There is therefore...
The current study forms part of a broader research effort directed towards arriving eventually at an internationally acceptable consensus on the statistical definition of child labor. It looks specifically...
The study helps to understand the nature of the impact of work on the school attendance and performance of children by examining the relationship between children's involvement in work, on one hand, and...
This paper explores possible links between orphan hood and two important determinants of child vulnerability - child labor and schooling, using household survey data from 10 Sub Saharan Africa countries...