Prevalence and predictors of child labour among junior public secondary school students in Enugu, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Globally, millions of children are involved in child labour. However, low- and middle-income countries are mostly hit. This study examined the predictors of child labour among public secondary school students in the Enugu metropolis.
N. O. Enebe +6 more
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Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 BackgroundThe incidence of child labour, especially across developing nations, is of global concern. The use of children in employment in developing economies constitutes a major threat to the societies, and concerted efforts are made by the relevant ...
Khaled Khatab +3 more
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The ILO’s Shifts in Child Labour Policy: Regulation and Abolition
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2019 After WWII the International Labour Organization (ILO) slowly but surely developed a ‘two plank’ approach to child labour, aimed at harmonising the need to protect children who do work, with the long-term goal of abolishing all forms of child labour ...
Edward van Daalen, Karl Hanson
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Breaking the cycle: long-term socio economic determinants of child labour in SAARC countries [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground Child labour remains a critical issue in SAARC countries, driven by various socio-economic factors. While previous studies have explored individual determinants, limited research has been conducted on their collective long-term impact ...
Tharaka Magammana +4 more
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OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, 2019 Sustainable Development Goal target 8.7 aims to eradicate child labour in all its forms by 2025. Ten years before this deadline, the objective is far from being achieved since in 2016, about one-in-ten children (152 million in total) aged 5 to 17 were engaged in child labour worldwide, many of them as unpaid family workers in agriculture.
O. Thévenon, E. Edmonds
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A Critical Review of Child Labour in Nigeria and The Case for Child Entrepreneurship
Rechtsidee: Law Journal, 2016 Nigeria and the world over condemn forced or exploitative labour of a child, for the obvious reason of the adverse physical, psychological, mental and emotional effect of it on children.
Mike Akpa AjaNwachuku
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Relationship of parental caregiving and child labour with developmental problems and mental health in children in low-to-middle-income countries using the socioecological resilience model [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground The socioecological resilience (SER) model explains that individual, relational, and structural factors influence child development and mental health.
Kelly Lin +5 more
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Child labour and inequality [PDF]
The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016 This paper focuses on the role that inequality plays in shaping political support for child labour regulation policies. We provide a model of the evolution of child labour, fertility and human capital where the heterogeneity between low- and high-skilled workers allows for an endogenous analysis of inequality generated by child labour. Depending on the
D'ALESSANDRO, SIMONE, Fioroni, Tamara
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Child labour and educational success in Portugal [PDF]
, 2005 child labour; education; child development; Portugal;
Bedi, A.S., Goulart, P.
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