Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
Child Labor | 5 |
Poverty | 5 |
Program Descriptions | 5 |
Foreign Countries | 4 |
Children | 2 |
Dropout Rate | 2 |
Employment | 2 |
Intervention | 2 |
Academic Achievement | 1 |
Adult Education | 1 |
Case Studies | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Denes, Christian Andrew | 1 |
Harper, Caroline | 1 |
John, Vaughn M. | 1 |
Li, Tianshu | 1 |
Marcus, Rachel | 1 |
Sekhri, Sheetal | 1 |
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 2 |
Reports - Research | 2 |
Opinion Papers | 1 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
Reports - General | 1 |
Education Level
Adult Education | 1 |
Elementary Education | 1 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Africa | 1 |
Asia | 1 |
Brazil | 1 |
India | 1 |
South Africa | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Li, Tianshu; Sekhri, Sheetal – World Bank, 2020
Many developing countries use employment guarantee programs to combat poverty. This paper examines the consequences of such employment guarantee programs for the human capital accumulation of children. It exploits the phased roll-out of India's flagship Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA) to study the effects on…
Descriptors: Employment, Poverty, Child Labor, Human Capital
John, Vaughn M. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Why do educated girls and women constitute a danger in some societies and for this face extreme danger in their educational endeavours? This article argues that historical and contemporary educational discrimination of girls and women is the hallmark of a violently patriarchal society, and this stubborn injustice is exacerbated under conditions of…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Educational Attainment, History
Denes, Christian Andrew – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2004
The Bolsa Escola program in Brazil presents a clear break from the economic growth models and supply-side based strategies of the past. Founded on the assumption that the supplemental income generated by child labour outweighs the potential benefits of primary education, Bolsa Escola attempts to address the demand-side component of high dropout…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Child Labor, Surveys, Foreign Countries

International Catholic Child Bureau, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1995
Governments have traditionally left the plight of street children and working children, who by some counts number over 100 million, to individuals and nongovernmental organizations, including many religious organizations. As a result, there are a multitude of small, uncoordinated, but highly effective projects throughout the world concentrated in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Labor, Children, Developing Nations
Marcus, Rachel; Harper, Caroline – 1997
Recognizing the vulnerability of working children to possible exploitation and abuse, this report examines remunerated and unremunerated work performed by children worldwide, ranging from child labor in factories and agriculture to work conducted within the family household. Section 1 of the report describes the scale and importance of children's…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Children, Education Work Relationship