With poverty widely accepted as one of the root causes of children’s harmful work, could measures to raise incomes be an important part of the solution? In many developing countries, children from poorer households are more likely to work, and more likely to do hazardous work. In Ghana, for example, UNICEF reports that exposure to...

Much attention is being given to how best to resurrect economic activity as the COVID-19 crisis subsides. The upheaval caused by the pandemic and the serious threat of climate change are drawing attention to new approaches to planning, economics and sustainability. With attention focusing on local and global issues, the question is at which scale...