Child labour exploitation is one of the development challenges that most developing countries experienced commonly. Worldwide, 218 million children of ages 5-17 are involved in child labour (ILO 2017), wherein 126 million work in dangerous conditions. In sub-Saharan Africa alone 29% of the labour force sourced from children with ages of 5-14 (ILO 2000). Persistent poverty and labour intensive nature of the economic activity, which is an agrarian type, are the pillar reasons for the child labour exploitation and low schooling (FAO 2006
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