For the children staying on streets in the poor countries, one can start school system to impart basic knowledge at times suitable to the children and their families. In this we encounter objections from the parents as the children are also their source of income. There is a ban on child labour by the world health organization as well as world labour organization. But these are only agencies to pass some directions, which actually are to be implemented by the families and parents from the poorer sections of the society, which they do not implement for their own economic reason. The local governments also find it difficult to follow the direction, as mostly they do not have any genuine concern, and above all this aspect is never their priority. The meetings and seminars against child labour takes place, usually with a bang in big hotel auditoriums, with non governmental organizations. The need is not to host meetings or seminars, but to educate the families and their children the importance of education with some sacrifice. The need, therefore, is to implement the idea at the grass root level with genuine dedication. The result of these concerted actions can be seen not immediately, but over a period of long time.
Globalization and the attendant concerns about poverty and inequality have become a focus of discussion in a way that few other topics, except for international terrorism or global warming, have. Most people have a strong opinion on globalization, and all of them express an interest in the well-being of the world's poor. The financial press and influential international officials confidently assert that global free markets expand the horizons for the poor, whereas activist-protesters hold the opposite belief with equal intensity. Yet the strength of people's conviction is often in inverse proportion to the amount of robust factual evidence they have.As is common in contentious public debates, different people mean different things by the same word. Some interpret "globalization" to mean the global reach of communications technology and capital movements, some think of the outsourcing by domestic companies in rich countries, and others see globalization as a byword for...
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