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Chaudhuri, S., & Dwibedi, J. K. (2007). Foreign Capital Inflow, Fiscal Policies and Independence of Child Labour in a Developing Economy. The Manchester School, 75, 17-46.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9957.2007.01001.x

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• TITLE: Child Labour and Import Substitution

  AUTHORS: Bharat Hazari, Vijay Mohan

  KEYWORDS: Child Labour, Import Substitution, Needs-Based Income, Tariffs

  JOURNAL NAME: Theoretical Economics Letters, Vol.15 No.2, April 7, 2025

  ABSTRACT: This paper examines the impact of import substitution motivated tariffs on child labour and welfare in a small open economy. Using a simple diagrammatic analysis of a two-sector general equilibrium model where parents send children to work when household income falls below a certain needs-based threshold, the model finds that tariffs can raise welfare under some circumstances, even in a small economy, though this welfare increase comes at the expense of greater child labour. Overall, the paper emphasizes the dangers of an import substitution policy in an economy where child labour is prevalent.