Atanu Dey on India’s Development

Banning Child Labor

From time to time I wonder whether some people are merely stupid or whether they are inherently evil. Or maybe they are actually stupid evil bastards. Just yesterday a report on the NPR show Marketplace got me wondering. It reported that India has recently passed a law outlawing child labor in households and in restaurants. It noted that employing children in factories was already banned.
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October 12, 2006 Posted by | Child Labor, Silly Policies, Stupid Monkeys | 34 Comments