Welcome to the website of the Tulane University Payson Center project on:
 
Oversight of Public and Private Initiatives to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana
 
 
  Books, Articles, and Reports - Child Labor in Ghana  
 

These articles discuss a diverse range of issues related to child labor in Ghana, including the relationships between schooling/education and child labor, strategies to combat worst forms of child labor, child labor and the agriculture/cocoa sector, wages, and gender issues in child labor.
 
Blunch, N.-H., Verner, D. (2001). Revisiting the link between poverty and child labor: The Ghanaian experience. Working Paper 01-03. April 2001. Aarhus, Denmark: Centre for Labour Market and Social Research, Department of Economics, the Aarhus School of Business.

Boas, M., Huser (2006). Child labor and cocoa production in West Africa, The case of
Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana
.   Download...

Canagarajah, S., Coulombe, H. (1997). Child labor and schooling in Ghana. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank. Download...

Ghana Statistical Service (2003). Ghana child labor survey. Ghana Statistical Service, March 2003.
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Heady, C. (2000). What is the effect of child labour on learning achievement? Evidence from Ghana. Innocenti Working Papers, no. 79. October 2000. Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.

IITA (2002). Summary of findings from the child labor surveys in the cocoa sector of West Africa: Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. July 2002. Download...

ILRF (2004). Chocolate and child slavery: Unfulfilled promises of the cocoa industry. International Labor Rights Fund. June 30, 2004. Download...

IPEC (2003). Skills training strategies to combat worst forms of child labor in the urban informal economy. Ghana country study. Geneva: International Labour Organization. International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour.

Mull, L.D., Kirkhorn, S.R. (2005). Child labor in Ghana cocoa production: focus upon
agricultural tasks, ergonomic exposures, and associated injuries and illnesses
. In: Public Health Reports. Vol. 120, no. 6, pp. 649-655.

Murray, U. (2004). A comparative analysis: Girl child labour in agriculture, domestic work and sexual exploitation. The cases of Ghana, Ecuador and the Philippines. In: Girl Child Labor Studies, volume no. 2. Geneva: International Labour Organization.

Ray, R. (2001). The determinants of child labor and child schooling in Ghana. University of Tasmania.  Hobart. Download...

Schultz, T.P., Tansel, A. (1997). Wage and labor supply effects of illness in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana: Instrumental variable estimates for days disabled. In: Journal of Development Economics. Vol. 53 (1997), pp. 251-286.

Teal, F., Vigneri, M. (undated). Coping with agricultural reforms in the 90s: The case of cocoa farmers in Ghana. Download..

Teal, F., Zeitlin, A. (2006). Ghana Cocoa Farmers Survey 2004: Report to Cocoa Board.   Download...

UNICEF (1995). Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey 1995, Mid-decade assessment. Ghana.
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Verification Working Group (2005b). Pilot verification in Ghana. Download...

World Bank (1999). Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS), 1987-88 and 1988-89. Basic information. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, Poverty and Human Resources Division.