P/E/282. Child labour: roots and concerns

The paper raises the problem of child labour relating the concerns about child bonded-labour in India and looking into the reasons for child labour, i.e. poverty, illiteracy, promotion of export industries, inefficient legislation on child labour, etc. International policies of the UNICEF and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) are briefly reviewed; the possibility of global and national solutions to the problem is argued.