India's Progress in Reducing Child Labor: New economy's need for skilled labor sends India's youth back to school.
Schooling has traditionally not been an option for many kids in India's rural families, but technology may be improving the situation. With widespread poverty and a shortage of high-skilled jobs, rural children typically have had to leave school early and enter the workforce, making what little mon...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 8 - 10 |
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World Future Society
July/August 2008
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