Rena, Ravinder (2006): The Child Labour in Developing Countries
– A Challenge to Millennium Development Goals. Forthcoming in:
Indus Journal of Management & Social Sciences , Vol. 3, No. 1
(February 2009): pp. 1-10. Download (44Kb) | Preview The problem
of child labour is immense and has been growing. Wherever
poverty exists, child labour there prevails and it is one of the
most striking issues in the developing countries. Hence, there
is a need to identify the vulnerable children and point out the
problems in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG),
particularly poverty eradication, education for all, gender
equality, combating HIV/AIDS and creation of a global
partnership for development. To understand household labour
supply decisions, considering relations to the labour market and
to public interventions is critical in designing programmes in
order to achieve the MDG. The research on child labour represent
in this respect a largely untapped resource of knowledge for
policymakers in the fields o