Documents et rapports

Little Nomads : Economic and Social Impacts of Migration on Children (anglais)

This brief highlights the key findings of a working paper that reviews the main findings of 113 studies produced between 1990 and 2023, focusing on the impact of migration on various child groups affected...

Factors Explaining Child Work and Education in Myanmar (anglais)

Child workers constitute a significant share of the Myanmar labor force, which has translated into an unprotected child labor market. Given the prevalence of issues surrounding school enrollment and dropout...

Priorities and roles of public actors in the fight against child labor : Priorités et rôles des acteurs publics dans la lutte contre le travail des enfants (français)

Child labor and youth employment in the Dominican Republic : Entendiendo el trabajo infantil y el empleo juvenil en la República Dominicana (espagnol)

Ecuador - Growing with our Guaguas Children Project : financial statements and other reports for the period from 11 March 31 December 2011 and the year ended December 31, 2012 with report of independent auditors : Ecuador - Proyecto Creciendo con Nuestros Guaguas Quito : estados financieros y otros reportes por el periodo comprendido entre el 11 de Marzo al 31 Diciembre de 2012 con informe de los auditores independientes (espagnol)

Understanding child labor in El Salvador : Entendiendo el trabajo infantil en El Salvador (espagnol)

UCW newsletter (14) (anglais)

This Understanding Children's Work (UCW) newsletter includes some of the following headlines: building on success in reducing child labor: drawing lessons from the Brazilian experience; project news; and...

Violence against children : preliminary evidence from Colombia, El Salvador, Cambodia, and Ecuador (anglais)

The issue of child abuse in developing countries is of utmost importance for designing policies directed to vulnerable children and aimed at combating the worst forms of child labor. Unfortunately there...

India - Building business and much more : Inde - Promouvoir les activités économiques (français)

This Results Profile deals with building business and women labor markets in India. The women succeeded with a grant from a Community Investment Fund, and a loan from the local bank, their enterprise took...

India - Building business and much more (anglais)

This Results Profile deals with building business and women labor markets in India. The women succeeded with a grant from a Community Investment Fund, and a loan from the local bank, their enterprise took...

Understanding Children's Work in Nepal : Report on child labor (anglais)

The current report as part of UCW project activities in Nepal. It provides an overview of the child labor phenomenon in the Kingdom - its extent and nature, its determinants, its consequences on health...

Child labor : lessons from the historical experience of today's industrial economies (anglais)

Child labor was more prevalent in 19th-century industrializers than it is in developing countries today. It was particularly extensive in the earliest industrializers. This pattern may be a source of optimism...

Health effects of children's work : evidence from Vietnam (anglais)

The authors test whether work in childhood impacts on health. The authors focus on agricultural work, the dominant form of child work worldwide. Data are from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey, 1992-93...

Understanding children's work in Morocco (anglais)

The current report was developed under the aegis of Understanding Children's Work (UCW) project activities in Morocco It provides an overview of the child work phenomenon in the Kingdom - its extent and...

Children's work in Cote d'Ivoire : an overview (anglais)

The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that in developing countries alone there are some 250 million children between the ages of five and 14 years who work. For 120 million of them, work...

Creating partnerships with working children and youth (anglais)

If children do not have voice, they cannot be heard. And, if we are to fully understand child labor, working children and youth should speak out on their situation. While in recent years this observation...

Children and Women in Yemen - A Situation Analysis to Be Seen and Heard : Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances (anglais)

Poverty is a key underlying contributing factor to all the categories of children in especially difficult circumstances covered in this report. Poverty pulls children out of school and into the workforce...

Child labor : issues and directions for the World Bank (anglais)

Child labor is a global issue. An estimated 250 million children are working worldwide. This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action to help address the issue more proactively, and outlines...

Child labor : issues and directions for the World Bank : El trabajo de menores planteamientos y orientaciones para el Banco Mundial (espagnol)

Child labor is a global issue. An estimated 250 million children are working worldwide. This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action to help address the issue more proactively, and outlines...

Bank's World (anglais)

This Banks World newsletter includes some of the following issues: the forgotten ones, by Francoise Remington; tough love, by Gillian W. Ross; partners for safe motherhood, by Lewis T. Preston; everything...