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Reevaluating the Relationship between Education and Child Labour Using the Capabilities Approach: Policy and Implications for Inequality in Cambodia
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Kluttz, Jenalee – Theory and Research in Education, 2015
Cambodia has experienced rapid economic growth in the last two decades, improving living standards and diminishing poverty. Unfortunately, it has failed to do so evenly. Growth within the country has widened the gap between rich and poor and exacerbated the rural/urban divide. This inequality is mirrored in the school system. Inequality within the…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Access to Education
Revisiting Primary School Dropout in Rural Cambodia
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No, Fata; Sam, Chanphirun; Hirakawa, Yukiko – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Previous studies on school dropout in Cambodia often used data from subjects after they already dropped out or statistics from education-related institutions. Using data from children in two rural provinces before they dropped out, this study examines four main factors in order to identify their influence on primary school dropout in Cambodia.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Foreign Countries, Child Labor
Is Combining Child Labour and School Education the Right Approach? Investigating the Cambodian Case
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Kim, Chae-Young – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
The paper considers whether letting children combine work and school is a valid and effective approach in Cambodia. Policy makers' suggestions that child labour should be allowed to some extent due to household poverty appear ungrounded as no significant relation between children's work and household poverty is found while arranging school…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Poverty, Child Labor, Foreign Countries