Child Labour and ‘Nowhere’ Children in Post-reforms India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14955087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amit K Giri (0000-0002-8154-6405, Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India., corresponding author), S P Singh (0000-0003-0536-0155, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.), Subrat Sharma (0000-0003-1330-0267) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-110 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indian Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0973-7030 • E-ISSN: 2456-480X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0973703016654562 |
| OpenAlex | W2491938212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Child labour is not only detrimental to individual children, but also to the society, community and the nation as it negatively affects the pace of economic growth by preventing full realization of positive externalities associated with human capital formation. It is also one of the major causes and consequences of poverty. Until early 1990, India had one of the highest incidences of child labour and out of school children in the world. Following the launching of economic reforms, India’s economy started growing at an accelerated rate in the post-reforms era, along with faster decline in the incidence of poverty. In the post-reforms era, the state of India also launched a slew of policies and programmes to eradicate child labour and to increase school enrolment in the country. But, had there been a phenomenal decline in the incidence of child labour and ‘nowhere’ children in the country? Had there been a phenomenal increase in school enrolment and decline in gender educational disparity in the post-reforms era in India? This article addresses these issues
Child labour · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Human capital · Pace · Political science · Poverty · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |