Published in association with Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternativesin Development
Child labour has become a hot issue. Internationalattention has often been
focused on South Asia, and initiativeshave been undertaken to use pro-active
policies, such as a tradeboycott, to pressurise governments in India, Pakistan,
Nepal andBangladesh to implement a complete ban on child labour and torealize
universal education. A gathering of outstandinginternational scholars, financed
by the Indo-Dutch Programme onAlternatives in Development, has discussed these
issues on thebasis of empirically grounded research papers. A selection of
thesepapers has been edited for this volume. The volume contains paperson the
extent of child labour in South Asia (and the spread acrossregions and sectors),
its