Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour 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 povert...
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| author | Idris Isyaku Abdullahi Zaleha Mohd Noor Rusmawati Said Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah |
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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).
Keywords: Poverty; Remittance; Child labour prevalence; System-GMM; Wealth paradox; developing countries
JEL Classifications: F24; P46; Z22
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| spelling | doaj.art-67a3b4f363774fd4a9605cfa6125045d2023-02-15T16:17:21ZengEconJournalsInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues2146-41382016-01-0161Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries?Idris Isyaku AbdullahiZaleha Mohd NoorRusmawati SaidAhmad Zubaidi Baharumshah 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). Keywords: Poverty; Remittance; Child labour prevalence; System-GMM; Wealth paradox; developing countries JEL Classifications: F24; P46; Z22 http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1547 |
| spellingShingle | Idris Isyaku Abdullahi Zaleha Mohd Noor Rusmawati Said Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues |
| title | Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? |
| title_full | Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? |
| title_fullStr | Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? |
| title_short | Does Poverty Influence Prevalence of Child Labour in Developing Countries? |
| title_sort | does poverty influence prevalence of child labour in developing countries |
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