Child Labor

One of a main issue for child labor in many developing countries is cause by poverty. ILO (International Labor Organization) statistic shows that one out of six children

 age between 5-17 year-old have to work instead of study and it is believed that the statistic particularly in Asia and Africa are higher.  Actually, child labor is not a new issue, in some of developed countries many years ago, a large number of children were forced to work in such as a farm or a factory therefore there had been encouraged that child labor was illegal and unaccepted. However, later on, in those wealthy counties, child labor was disappeared because of better economy. In this issue, they have been argued that child labor is a cause or a result of poverty as is mentioned earlier.

In the part 4-5 years, some of economists including ILO had a doubt and expressed their opinions that a reason why some poor countries were still poor was because child labor was permitted and acceptable means that child labor was not a reason but were a result. They explained that poverty occurred for example child labor means that children who are under 12 do not go to school and  they will have less chance to get a good job therefore if child labor is legal it means that it bar an investment in human capital. In addition, hiring child labor can low an average adult labor’s minimum wage because employing child labor is much cheaper. Those reasons may be reliable but it is none of statistic evidence to support.

However, no matter child labor is a cause or result of poverty many of children still work hard and produce cheap product to people around the world but for themselves they have not get appropriate education and an opportunity to have joyfully life as other children in their age.