Incidence of child labour is a disturbing feature of an emerging market economy. In the present article, we will try to explore whether globalization policies, namely, agricultural trade liberalization and methods aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI), have had any negative impact...

The economic literature has shown that exogenous transitory shocks affect education by changing the opportunity cost of children. We argue that this is only part of the explanation. When permanent, shocks may change contracts and the organization of labour by eroding the productive structure and...

Considering that it is imperative to provide reliable, comprehensive and timely data that serve as a basis to determine the priorities of national and sub-national action aimed at the prevention and elimination of child labour, the ILO Regional Office for the Americas promoted an alliance with...