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Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?

The present article examined the impact of poverty on child labour prevalence across 42 developing countries based on system-GMM technique. The main result on the linkage between child labour prevalence and poverty deviated from the popular beliefs in majority of the existing literature that poverty...

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Main Authors: Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku, Mohd Noor, Zaleha, Said, Rusmawati, Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi
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Language:English
Published: EconJournals 2016
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27978/1/Does%20poverty%20influence%20prevalence%20of%20child%20labor%20in%20developing%20countries.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.279782016-06-20T05:55:41Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27978/ Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries? Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku Mohd Noor, Zaleha Said, Rusmawati Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi The present article examined the impact of poverty on child labour prevalence across 42 developing countries based on system-GMM technique. The main result on the linkage between child labour prevalence and poverty deviated from the popular beliefs in majority of the existing literature that poverty caused child labour prevalence. The finding indicated that poverty is negatively related to child labour prevalence, in the sense that the higher the poverty the lower the child labour prevalence in the sample countries investigated, this finding therefore reconfirmed the wealth paradox of Bhalotra and Heady (2003). EconJournals 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27978/1/Does%20poverty%20influence%20prevalence%20of%20child%20labor%20in%20developing%20countries.pdf Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku and Mohd Noor, Zaleha and Said, Rusmawati and Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi (2016) Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries? International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 6 (1). pp. 7-12. ISSN 2146-4138 http://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1547
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description The present article examined the impact of poverty on child labour prevalence across 42 developing countries based on system-GMM technique. The main result on the linkage between child labour prevalence and poverty deviated from the popular beliefs in majority of the existing literature that poverty caused child labour prevalence. The finding indicated that poverty is negatively related to child labour prevalence, in the sense that the higher the poverty the lower the child labour prevalence in the sample countries investigated, this finding therefore reconfirmed the wealth paradox of Bhalotra and Heady (2003).
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author Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku
Mohd Noor, Zaleha
Said, Rusmawati
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi
spellingShingle Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku
Mohd Noor, Zaleha
Said, Rusmawati
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi
Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
author_facet Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku
Mohd Noor, Zaleha
Said, Rusmawati
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi
author_sort Abdullahi, Idris Isyaku
title Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
title_short Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
title_full Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
title_fullStr Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
title_full_unstemmed Does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
title_sort does poverty influence prevalence of child labor in developing countries?
publisher EconJournals
publishDate 2016
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/27978/1/Does%20poverty%20influence%20prevalence%20of%20child%20labor%20in%20developing%20countries.pdf
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http://www.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1547
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