The International Labour Organization (ILO) has estimated that 218 million children between the ages of five and seventeen work in developing countries. Of these, 122.3 million children work in ...

We find that the magnitude of the association between our proxy of access to credit and child labor is large in the sub-sample of poor countries. Moreover, in the absence of developed financial ...

We find that countries that trade more have less child labor. At the cross-country means ... conditional on cross-country income differences when we split the sample into different country groups, ...

Of nearly 250 million children engaged in child labor around the world ... found that despite the vast differences among these four countries, many of the risks and abuses faced by child ...

African countries are home to most of the world's 160 million working children. The International Labor Organization estimates that more than 72 million children in sub-Saharan Africa — nearly ...

The chance experience of teaching Global Dimensions of Business a few years ago was starkly different ... in countries such as India, Jordan, and Mali that have the highest rates of child labor ...

A typical argument against the participation of young individuals in the labor market goes like this: Child labor deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity. It harms ...

From a small group of five organizations, it now brings together over 50 groups/organizations working on child labor in 14 countries. It facilitates sharing of expertise and experiences between NGOs ...

including labor abuse allegations. But of the nearly 100 complaints listed on its case tracker for the two Southeast Asian countries in the last decade, only a handful have mentioned children.

asking U.S. Customs and Border Protection if it had considered a blanket ban on imports from those countries. For shedding unprecedented light on child labor in Southeast Asia’s palm oil fields,and ...