Estimating the economic incentives necessary for eliminating child labor in Ghanaian cocoa production.
Concerns about the use of child labor in West African cocoa production became widespread in the early 2000s in many high-income countries. In 2015 in Ghana, 91.8% (or a total of 878,595) of the children working in the cocoa sector were involved in a form of hazardous work. Child labor in cocoa produ...
Main Authors: | Jeff Luckstead, Francis Tsiboe, Lawton L Nalley |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217230 |
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