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BMJ (Clinical research ed.)The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical ...
Sharma, Gunjan, Ruhina Prasad
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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.
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Does Globalization Contribute to Decreasing Child Labor Rates?
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2016 This study examines the relationship between globalization (from a multidimensional viewpoint) and child labour. It assesses the impact of globalisation on child labour in relation to a country’s level of development.
Leopoldo Laborda castillo +1 more
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Child domestic labour in Pakistan: a narrative review
Journal of the Pakistan Medical AssociationChild domestic workers are children who are hired to work in households by the ownershousehold chores. In 1996, up to 8.3% of all child labour cases in Pakistan involved domestic chores Poverty is one of the most common and significant factors for child
Raahim Salman Abdul Ghaffar +1 more
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Thinking and labour (reading Vygotsky)
Культурно-историческая психология, 2023 Lev Vygotsky connected the development of “higher forms of thinking” with labour, and claimed that this connection is “central and basic”, allowing to unfold the peculiarities of children’s thinking and the new in
A.D. Maidansky
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Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2006 The importance of health The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child labour as “all economic activities carried out by persons less than 15, regardless of their occupational status, except household work in parents/carers homes”.1 By this definition over 200 million children, or a massive 20% of all children under the age of 15, are ...
T, Hesketh, J, Gamlin, M, Woodhead
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard +8 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bone tumours present significant challenges for affected patients, as multimodal therapy often leads to prolonged physical limitations. This is particularly critical during childhood and adolescence, as it can negatively impact physiological development and psychosocial resilience.
Jennifer Queisser +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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Girls in Mining: Research Findings from Ghana, Niger, Peru, and United Republic of Tanzania [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] Research carried out by the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO–IPEC) between April and December 2006 has produced evidence that girls as well as boys are involved in hazardous ...
International Labour Organization, Bureau for Gender Equality +1 more
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