However, there has been little empirical evidence that child labour affects children's emotional and behavioural development. This study departs from existing literature by examining the mental health impacts of child labour in Vietnam and India, as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties ...
‘domains of value’, namely the social, economic or technical (Iacovidou et al., 2017a, Iacovidou et al., 2017b, Iacovidou et al., 2018), such as when recycling targets of ‘developed’ countries result in high waste exports that impact upon rates of child labour in importing ...
Five dimensions of child poverty are examined: monetary poverty, caloric poverty, child school participation and child labour, and children's access to health care services. The study shows that the crisis is projected to lower the real GDP growth rate by 1.3 percentage points in 2009, 0.9 in...
Child protection 1. Introduction As of December 2nd, at the time the authors were concluding this article, COVID-19 had claimed the lives of 1.4 million people around the globe and positive cases had surpassed 62 million (WHO, 2020). In tandem with the considerable loss of life, COVID-19...
Learn about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the reasons for it, and its history. In addition, read about FLSA overtime, child labor, and wage provisions. Related to this Question What is the effect of minimum wage on employment?
Comparison of bottom-up and top-down approaches to calculating the water footprints of nations. Econ. Syst. Res. 23, 371–385 (2011). Article Google Scholar Gómez-Paredes, J. et al. Consuming childhoods: an assessment of child labor’s role in Indian production and global consumption. J...
To support family work and child rearing and to create an incentive for women to leave the labour force when children are very young; or 2. To facilitate women's work outside the home and help reconcile work and family life by protecting and promoting the well-b...
The projected trend of a global shift of tobacco cultivation into the developing world is confirmed, but also refined. Wood is used in Brazil and Tanzania for curing Virginia green leaf, thus contradicting the projected continuous reduction of this energy source. Child labour remains a major ...
Cash transfers Child schooling Child labour Randomized control trial Mali 1. Introduction Over the past few decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has made significant investments in the education sector, with primary school enrolment rates increasing from 61 percent in 2000 to 80 percent in 2020 (Sanch...
They find that the occurrence of serious health shocks that required hospital treatment doubled the average debt burden of households with a member having a health shock compared to the control group. However, households with a parent, child, or spouse in the US did not increase their debts ...