The paper purports to examine the implications of a free education policy and trade liberalization on the child and adult labour markets in the set-up of a Harris-Todaro type general equilibrium model. It has been found that a hike in the education subsidy or an inflow of foreign capital may...

Whether a liberalizing developing economy should implement the entire WTO-prescribed package, and to what extent this is expedient, are two important questions, especially because the available empirical evidence suggests that developing countries have been facing substantial adjustment costs in...

Whether a liberalizing developing economy should implement the entire WTO-prescribed package and to what extent this is expedient, are the two burning questions, especially because available empirical evidence suggests that the developing countries have been facing substantial adjustment costs...

This paper is an attempt to analyze the consequence of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed countries on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy in terms of a three-sector general equilibrium model with informal sectors. Adult labour and child labour are substitutes...

The present paper has made an attempt to analyze the effects of different trade and investment liberalization policies on the incidence of child labour in a developing economy using a three-sector general equilibrium framework with a non-traded final commodity produced by child labour. The...