Trade Liberalization in Agriculture in Developed Nations and Incidence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy

Sarbajit Chaudhuri () and Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi
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Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi: Dept. of Economics, Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, India

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Abstract: 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 to each other in the two informal sectors of the economy and are used together apart from capital in producing two exportable commodities. The interesting result that appears from the analysis is that agricultural trade liberalization in the developed countries may be effective in bringing down the incidence of child labour in the system. The paper substantiates the desirability of trade liberalization in agriculture in the developed nations from the perspective of the developing economies for reason other than welfare improvement.

Keywords: Child labour; trade liberalization in agriculture; informal sector; general equilibrium model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 J10 J13 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr and nep-int
Date: Written 2005-10-20
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