Child Labor and Schooling in Ghana 1844.
Child labor is a widespread, growing problem in the developing world.
About 250 million of the world's children work, nearly half of them full-time. According to 1992 data for Ghana, one girl in three and one boy in four does not attend school. The figures are worse in rural areas. Canagarajah and Coulombe studied the dynamics of how households decided whether to send children 7 through 14 to school or to work, using household survey data for 1987 92. They do not address the issue of street kids, which does not imply that they are less important than the others.