@@ The article outlines finding of the research titled ?Globalization and Its Impacts on Child Labor: Pakistan as Case Study”.The research objective of this study was to test the hypothesis: Globalization has left adverse impacts on child labor in developing countries.The fact that there has been no serious research work done on the relationship between globalization and the child labor [1] rendered it difficult to set exact parameters to deduct concrete results.Although the data was expected to support the acceptance of the hypothesis,in nutshell it did not.Impacts of globalization are not as adverse as feared,although neither very positive.The sectors examined (Carpet,Glass Bangles,Manufacturing of Surgical Instruments,Leather Tanneries,Debt Bondage,Soccer Ball,and Child Trafficking Industries) show that once exposed to international conscience,using and exploiting children as laborers became difficult for the perpetrators,at least.International agencies including UN agencies,foreign governments,development agencies,international NGOs and big donors like the World Bank and ADB have all shown interest in the child labor issue in different ways.While the World Bank and ADB have largely confined their efforts to drafting research papers and providing the so called intellectual input to their government counterparts on a high level,many other international organizations such as ILO,UNICEF,IOM,Save the Children etc,are actively working on the child labor issues with ministries,federal and provincial departments,trade unions,employer associations and of course,the NGOs.However,the total coverage of working children of all the programs put together under the pressure and help of international society is about 75,000 i.e.barely 2% of the official figure of 3.6 million full time child workers.Benefits of the globalization should reach to the maximum rather than to handful picks.
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