Child sakadas in Philippine agriculture: Researching injury hazards for working children in the context of international labor standards and United States ... is the Filipino/Tagalog word for a farmworker or migrant laborer that typically gets paid below the minimum wage. In the Philippines, there ...
Mike Norris, still on the floor in the bedroom tells the backup cop who then arrives that Chuckie was shot and that his body is in pieces all over the place and to not touch any of them. It is impossible for Norris to know or to have seen any of this, as he was in the other ...
As Swaminathan (1998, p. 1514) argues in the case of market child work: "It is the structure of demand, however, that determines the use of child work. When there is demand for child work, poverty ensures that the supply is forthcoming". 1 expense of schooling by creating profitable ...
Care crisis in the Philippines: children and transnational families in the new global economy. In: Ehrenreich B, Hoschild AR, eds. Global woman: nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books; 2003. 13. Pyle J. Globalization and the increase in ...
Nutribuns were developed by USAID with a recipe designed around a 'base' product that could be modified using any number of locally available substances and were first used in the Philippines in 1970 following a series of typhoons (USAID, 1972). This flexibility was central to what Scott-...
On the eve of independence in 1962, malnutrition was the largest single cause of death in Jamaica for children under one. Although child malnutrition rates have rapidly declined since 1962, today Jamaica experiences a double burden of malnutrition: the c
The migration of fathers changed the chance of children’s marriage, which was manifested in advancing the marriage time of women and delaying the marriage time of men. The migration of mothers can increase the chances of upward educational mobility for both women and men. ...
Yet, little is known about the effect of parental disability on their children’s education. Parental disability could potentially be associated with poor education outcomes among children for a few reasons. First of all, disability can result in lower labor productivity and less income. Evidence fr...
000 victims of CSA in Germany found that the average age of reporting was52.2 years. In the Philippines,44 percentof children surveyed indicated that they would not know who to tell if they were abused, and in Kenya,two-thirdsof survivors surveyed said they did not know where to go for ...
Vietnam has an age-old history of education, and Vietnamese people have high respect for learning. However, early childhood education (ECE) in Vietnam has been the main concern only since 1945. This paper describes the process of establishment and develo