The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalization ─ Policy Issues

Children in poor countries are subjected to exploitation characterized by low wages, long hours of work, unclean, unhygienic and unsafe working and living conditions, and more importantly, deprivation from education, which hamper their physical and mental development. Child labour is a complex issue and clearly it has no simple solution. This book sheds some understanding to its root causes.

The book attempts to delve into many of the important aspects of child labour theoretically, and suggest policies which could indeed be useful in dealing with the problem under diverse situations using alternative multi-sector general equilibrium models.

Sarbajit Chaudhuri is Professor with the Department of Economics at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. He is also the author of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries: A Theoretical Evaluation (Springer, IN), Revisiting the Informal Sector: A General Equilibrium Approach (Springer, New York) and Some Aspects of Agricultural Credit in a Developing Economy (Serials Publications, New Delhi). For his work, he was made an honorary member of the Canadian Economic Association, in 2006. His areas of interest include development economics, international trade, labour economics, agricultural economics and applied microeconomics.

Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi is Associate Professor of Economics at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India. He specializes in trade and development, and labour economics. His current research interests include development economics, labour economics and issues related to Public Finance and Public Policy. Recently, he has completed two collaborative studies (with CTRPFP, CSSSC) for the Central Finance Commission, India and the State Finance Commission of West Bengal, India.