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Combating Agricultural Child Labour for National Development: Implications for the Millenium Development Goals in Nigeria

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

combating agricultural child labour for national development: implications for the millenium development goals in nigeria

a simmering crisis in the nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. one of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

Why Aren’t We Achieving the Millenium Development Goals? Book Review for the Proceedings of Annual World Bank Conference in Development Economics, `Lessons of Experience’ and `Are we on Track to Achieve the Millenium Development Goals’

The Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is a forum that is intended to allow luminaries of the World Bank and its partner institutions, leading academics working on development issues, and individuals working in large and influential NGOs to debate policy issues facing developing countries. These are people and institutions with immense potential to affect the practice...

MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN LGBT Rights in the Developing World: The Role of Religion

From Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) mark a historic and eff ective method of global mobilisation to achieve a set of important social priorities worldwide. They express widespread public concern about poverty, hunger, disease, unmet schooling, gender inequality, and environmental degradation. By packaging these priorities into an easily understandable set of eight goals, and by establishing...