Does social labelling encourage child schooling and discourage child labour in Nepal?

International Journal of Educational Development

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 489-495

  Chakrabarty, Sayan ^a   Grote, Ulrike ^b   Lüchters, Guido ^c  

^a SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child labour; Labelling; Nepal; NGOs; Schooling

Indexed keywords

CHILD LABOR; EDUCATION; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PROBABILITY;

NEPAL;

EID: 79957856237     PISSN: 07380593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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