In Karachi, large employment opportunities, burgeoning population and the availability of cheap labour might be the contributing factors for the increasing prevalence of child labour. A literature review was conducted in 2007 that included published and unpublished literature since 2000. Various organizations working in the field were also covered, while the perception of the child labourers wa...

This study investigates the key determinants of child labour hours and child schooling experience paying special attention to the interaction between the two. A significant methodogical feature that distinguishes the present study from previous investigations is that this analysis recognises the joint endogeneity of child labour, child schooling and child poverty. The study is conducted on Nepa...

This study examines whether and to what extend child labour affects educational attainment in adulthood. While there is a substantial body of literature investigating child labour, long-run effects remain almost entirely unexplored due to lack of panel data spanning a sufficiently long period of time. This study uses a newly available 13 year individual level panel data set from rural Tanzania ...

The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find tha...

This paper focuses on the impact that two different types of policy interventions, namely enhancing school quality and contingent cash transfers , have on child labour and school attendance in Mexico. While there are many studies on the impact of Oportunidades on schooling outcomes, little evidence is available on whether school quality programs such as CONAFE also reduce child labour and help ...

Child labour is an issue of growing concern in Afghanistan. According to recent estimates, one in four Afghan children aged seven to 14 is engaged in some form of work.1 This briefing paper explores why children in Afghanistan work, focusing specifically on factors that influence decision-making at the household level. Drawing on findings from an in-depth, qualitative study of poor households t...

This paper analyses the use of microfinance as an intervention tool against child labour in the footwear sector in Biñan, Laguna Province, the Philippines. Based on a microfinance programme implemented as part of an ILO/IPEC project to eliminate child labour in the footwear sector, the study focuses on the structure of the sector and the division of labour within the households and analyses how...