Number of children living in poverty rises | Politics | guardian.co.uk
New Labour is still missing child poverty targets in the UK Number of children living in poverty rises | Politics | guardian.co.uk
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According to ILO estimates, there are some
250 million children between the ages of 5 and14
years who are in economic activity in developing
countries alone. For 120 million of them, work is a
full-time activity. The remainder combine work with
schooling or other non-economic activities.
While most child labour is found in the developing
regions of the world, industrialized countries are not
entirely free of it either. In Eastern and Central
Europe, for example, child labour has been
reappearing in the wake of social and economic
dislocation caused by the transition to a market
economy.
In absolute terms, Asia, being the most densely
populated region of the world, has the largest number
of child workers. 61 per cent are found in Asia, 32 per
cent in Africa and 7 per cent in Latin America
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