Number of Working Children:

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Number of Working Children:

• It is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living.
  
  
• Used as an economic tool to measure citizens living in poverty and consider socioeconomic reforms such as welfare and unemployment insurance to reduce poverty.

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Determining Poverty Line 

• Poverty Line is determined by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.
  
  
• This approach is need-based in that an assessment is made of the minimum expenditure needed to maintain a tolerable life.
  
  

Unicef lists four "myths":

• Myth 1: Child labor is only a problem in developing countries. In fact, children routinely work in all industrialized countries, and hazardous forms of child labour can be found in many countries.
• Myth 2: Child labor will only disappear when poverty disappears. Hazardous labor can, and should be eliminated by even the poorest countries.
• Myth 3: Most child laborers work in sweatshops making goods for export. Probably less than 5 per cent of all child workers are employed in export industries. Most of the world’s child labourers actually are to be found selling on the street, at work in agriculture. #nextpage#
• Myth 4: The only way to make headway against child labour is for consumers and governments to apply pressure through sanctions and boycotts. Such measures are also blunt instruments with long-term consequences that can actually harm rather than help the children involved.