Kaushik Basu

Child Labor Child labor has been around for long time and it still exists in today's world. Thiskind of labor provides problems or difficulties in the economic world. Child labor is social problem with the rise of industrial production and capitalism. It appeared in earlier ages in agricultural societies when the children all around the world had to work along with 19th century, spreading to many countries. The problems started when many children, younger than ten years old, were employed

Top 10 Movies of Bipasha Basu Bipasha Basu is a beautiful bong babe hailing from the city of Kolkata. She has made her mark in the Hindi film industry with her bold looks and charismatic moves. She is a versatile actress with an added spice to her acting capabilities and dialogue delivery in all of her movies. She has an appeal to her audiences and fans worldwide due to her attractive and bold body appeal. She is having the most beautiful body in the film industry and her curves make her fans and

conditions that the children suffered through were appalling. There are children who work in hazardous industries, risking accident and injury; there are others working in conditions that take a slower but definite toll on the children’s health (Basu, Kaushik, and Pham Hoang Van. "The Economics of Child Labor" The Economics of Child Labor (1998): 412-27. Print.). Many of the families that had children working had not much choice in allowing their kids to do so. One person or even two people working

Most, but not all, historians agree on the fact that parents sent their children to work out of necessity, not want. S.J Kleinberg, a social historian, Kaushik Basu, an economist, and Pham Hoang Van, also an economist, agree that parents had to have working children to survive and ward off destitution. Basu and Van state clearly in their 1998 article, “The Economics of Child Labor” that, “Parents were desperately unhappy about the situations their children were in but could do nothing about it.

untouched by the need of systematic data analysis, be it academia, business or government. In addition, I see Econometrics as an antidote for the chaotic and turbulent world of the policymaking and politics. I enthusiastically follow the work of Mr. Kaushik Basu, the first Indian chief economist of the World Bank. As quoted by him, I am convinced that the long-run fate of the Indian economy will be determined much more by the deliberations, discussions, writings of scientists and bodies like econometric

Canada is home to some of the largest mining corporations in the world. In fact, seventy-five percent of the world’s mining companies are based in Canada (Dean, 2013). These companies are involved in the extraction of numerous resources, including silver, petroleum, bitumen and coal. Canadian mining operations also have a particular focus in gold, as twenty-one of the country’s top forty mining companies are involved in gold extraction. With billion dollar annual revenues and interests in almost

Child Labor The next time when you are out on your shopping trip, chances you may have support a business that exploits children. It is very disturbing and heartbreaking to learn many children are chained to looms for 12 hours a day because families need to have their child bringing home a small amount of moneys. Child labor has always been a difficult subject to address, the topic have become much more complicated and prolific. Child Labor is not an isolated problem. The phenomenon of

The Affect of Child Labor on the World Introduction Child labor is a very hot topic in today’s world. The problems associated with child labor have always been a part of life but thanks to Globalization, everyone is now more aware of the child labor issues that exist. Whether an individual is in favor or against child labor the fact is that child labor affects everyone, because child labor affects the global economy. Children who work play a big role in the economy because they produce goods

Outstanding Outsourcing “It (outsourcing) is not a our father’s traditional foreign trade. Goods are not being traded. Offshore production is not a case of US making good X and trading it (to another country) for good Y. It is a case of the US ceasing to make X in the US and making it (in another country) instead” (“Outsourcing champs say India critical to their success”). This quote leads to the differences between outsourcing and trade. Trade is a matter that had threatened the unskilled

Impact of Fuel Price Deregulation in India Introduction Empowered group of Ministers on Friday, 25th June 2010, took a decision to decontrol the petrol prices increasing it by 3.50 per litre & that of kerosene by Rs 3 a litre. While petrol is mainly used by the middle class for cars, kerosene is used by the poor for power. Diesel prices rose by Rs 2 per litre and might be freed up in the future. Cooking gas prices were raised by Rs 35  a cylinder. Govt. has indeed taken a bold step by deciding