praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Child_labour
Context: Other scholars[who?] suggest that these arguments are flawed, ignores history and more laws will do more harm than good. According to them, child labour is merely the symptom of a greater disease named poverty. If laws ban all lawful work that enables the poor to survive, informal economy, illicit operations and underground businesses will thrive. These will increase abuse of the children. In poor countries with very high incidence rates of child labour - such as Ethiopia, Chad, Niger and Nepal - schools are not available, and the few schools that exist offer poor quality education or are unaffordable. The alternatives for children who currently work, claim these studies, are worse: grinding subsistence farming, militia or prostitution. Child labour is not a choice, it is a necessity, the only option for survival. It is currently the least undesirable of a set of very bad choices.

question: What do some scholars agress is the "disease" of child labour? 

answer: poverty

question: Do these scholars argue for or against ending child labour? 

answer: These will increase abuse of the children. In poor countries with very high incidence rates of child labour

question: What do these scholars argue for keeping child labour as a practice? 

answer: only option for survival
Title: Child_labour
Context: These scholars suggest, from their studies of economic and social data, that early 20th-century child labour in Europe and the United States ended in large part as a result of the economic development of the formal regulated economy, technology development and general prosperity. Child labour laws and ILO conventions came later. Edmonds suggests, even in contemporary times, the incidence of child labour in Vietnam has rapidly reduced following economic reforms and GDP growth. These scholars suggest economic engagement, emphasis on opening quality schools rather than more laws and expanding economically relevant skill development opportunities in the third world. International legal actions, such as trade sanctions increase child labour.

question: What caused child labour to decrease in the 20th century? 

answer: economic development

question: What caused child labour to decrease in Vietnam? 

answer: economic reforms

question: What do these scholars suggest with regards to child labour reductions? 

answer: emphasis on opening quality schools rather than more laws and expanding economically relevant skill development opportunities in the third world

question: What do international actions do according to these scholars? 

answer: increase child labour
Title: Child_labour
Context: In 1998, UNICEF reported that Ivory Coast farmers used enslaved children – many from surrounding countries. In late 2000 a BBC documentary reported the use of enslaved children in the production of cocoa—the main ingredient in chocolate— in West Africa. Other media followed by reporting widespread child slavery and child trafficking in the production of cocoa. In 2001, the US State Department estimated there were 15,000 child slaves cocoa, cotton and coffee farms in the Ivory Coast, and the Chocolate Manufacturers Association acknowledged that child slavery is used in the cocoa harvest.[not in citation given][better source needed]

question: Who reported Ivory Coast farmers usage of child labour? 

answer: UNICEF

question: What do child labourers work on in West Africa? 

answer: production of cocoa

question: How many child slaves were reported in cocoa, coffee and cotton farms? 

answer: 15,000
Title: Child_labour
Context: Malian migrants have long worked on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast, but in 2000 cocoa prices had dropped to a 10-year low and some farmers stopped paying their employees. The Malian counsel had to rescue some boys who had not been paid for five years and who were beaten if they tried to run away. Malian officials believed that 15,000 children, some as young as 11 years old, were working in the Ivory Coast in 2001. These children were often from poor families or the slums and were sold to work in other countries. Parents were told the children would find work and send money home, but once the children left home, they often worked in conditions resembling slavery. In other cases, children begging for food were lured from bus stations and sold as slaves. In 2002, the Ivory Coast had 12,000 children with no relatives nearby, which suggested they were trafficked, likely from neighboring Mali, Burkina Faso and Togo.

question: What migrants worked on the Ivory Coast? 

answer: Malian

question: After a 10 year low in prices what did some farmers resort to? 

answer: stopped paying their employees

question: Where did the children mainly come from? 

answer: slums

question: Where were begging children often targeted for being sold into slavery? 

answer: bus stations
Title: Child_labour
Context: The cocoa industry was accused of profiting from child slavery and trafficking. The European Cocoa Association dismissed these accusations as "false and excessive" and the industry said the reports were not representative of all areas. Later the industry acknowledged the working conditions for children were unsatisfactory and children's rights were sometimes violated and acknowledged the claims could not be ignored. In a BBC interview, the ambassador for Ivory Coast to the United Kingdom called these reports of widespread use of slave child labour by 700,000 cocoa farmers as absurd and inaccurate.

question: What industry was accused of profiting from child labour? 

answer: cocoa industry

question: Who dismissed the allegations? 

answer: European Cocoa Association

question: What are the figures for cocoa farmers using child labour? 

answer: 700,000

question: Who claimed these reports as being inaccurate? 

answer: ambassador for Ivory Coast to the United Kingdom
Title: Child_labour
Context: In 2001, a voluntary agreement called the Harkin-Engel Protocol, was accepted by the international cocoa and chocolate industry to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, as defined by ILO's Convention 182, in West Africa. This agreement created a foundation named International Cocoa Initiative in 2002. The foundation claims it has, as of 2011, active programs in 290 cocoa growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, reaching a total population of 689,000 people to help eliminate the worst forms of child labour in cocoa industry. Other organisations claim progress has been made, but the protocol's 2005 deadlines have not yet been met.

question: What type of agreement was the 2001 Harkin-Engel Protocol? 

answer: voluntary

question: What was the foundation that was the direct result of the agreement? 

answer: International Cocoa Initiative

question: How many active programs does the foundation have?  

answer: 290

question: What happened to the 2005 deadlines? 

answer: have not yet been met
Title: Child_labour
Context: In 2008, Bloomberg claimed child labour in copper and cobalt mines that supplied Chinese companies in Congo. The children are creuseurs, that is they dig the ore by hand, carry sacks of ores on their backs, and these are then purchased by these companies. Over 60 of Katanga's 75 processing plants are owned by Chinese companies and 90 percent of the region's minerals go to China. An African NGO report claimed 80,000 child labourers under the age of 15, or about 40% of all miners, were supplying ore to Chinese companies in this African region. Amnesty International alleged in 2016 that some cobalt sold by Congo Dongfang Mining was produced by child labor, and that it was being used in lithium-ion batteries powering electric cars and mobile devices worldwide.

question: Who was the supplier of copper and cobalt to China? 

answer: Congo

question: What are child creuseurs? 

answer: they dig the ore by hand, carry sacks of ores on their backs

question: What percent of materials go to China? 

answer: 90 percent

question: What is the cobalt used for? 

answer: lithium-ion batteries powering electric cars and mobile devices worldwide
Title: Child_labour
Context: BBC, in 2012, accused Glencore of using child labour in its mining and smelting operations of Africa. Glencore denied it used child labour, and said it has strict policy of not using child labour. The company claimed it has a strict policy whereby all copper was mined correctly, placed in bags with numbered seals and then sent to the smelter. Glencore mentioned being aware of child miners who were part of a group of artisanal miners who had without authorisation raided the concession awarded to the company since 2010; Glencore has been pleading with the government to remove the artisanal miners from the concession.

question: What did the BBC say that Glencore used child labour for in 2012? 

answer: mining and smelting operations of Africa

question: What did Glencore say in regards to the allegations? 

answer: denied

question: What did Glencore admit to with regards to child labor? 

answer: being aware of child miners
Title: Child_labour
Context: Small-scale artisanal mining of gold is another source of dangerous child labour in poor rural areas in certain parts of the world. This form of mining uses labour-intensive and low-tech methods. It is informal sector of the economy. Human Rights Watch group estimates that about 12 percent of global gold production comes from artisanal mines. In west Africa, in countries such as Mali - the third largest exporter of gold in Africa - between 20,000 and 40,000 children work in artisanal mining. Locally known as orpaillage, children as young as 6 years old work with their families. These children and families suffer chronic exposure to toxic chemicals including mercury, and do hazardous work such as digging shafts and working underground, pulling up, carrying and crushing the ore. The poor work practices harm the long term health of children, as well as release hundreds of tons of mercury every year into local rivers, ground water and lakes. Gold is important to the economy of Mali and Ghana. For Mali, it is the second largest earner of its export revenue. For many poor families with children, it is the primary and sometimes the only source of income.

question: What is another source of mining dangerous to children workers? 

answer: gold

question: What is the third largest exporter of gold in Africa? 

answer: Mali

question: Why is gold vital to the people of Mali? 

answer: it is the second largest earner of its export revenue

question: What is the gold production income of poor families in Mali? 

answer: primary and sometimes the only source of income
Title: Child_labour
Context: In early August 2008, Iowa Labour Commissioner David Neil announced that his department had found that Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking company in Postville which had recently been raided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, had employed 57 minors, some as young as 14, in violation of state law prohibiting anyone under 18 from working in a meatpacking plant. Neil announced that he was turning the case over to the state Attorney General for prosecution, claiming that his department's inquiry had discovered "egregious violations of virtually every aspect of Iowa's child labour laws." Agriprocessors claimed that it was at a loss to understand the allegations. Agriprocessors' CEO went to trial on these charges in state court on 4 May 2010. After a five-week trial he was found not guilty of all 57 charges of child labour violations by the Black Hawk County District Court jury in Waterloo, Iowa, on 7 June 2010.

question: How many minors did Agriprocessors employ? 

answer: 57

question: What did Agriprocessors say in regards to the allegations? 

answer: claimed that it was at a loss to understand the allegations

question: When did the CEO go on trial? 

answer: 4 May 2010

question: What was the verdict? 

answer: not guilty of all 57 charges of child labour violations by the Black Hawk County District Court jury in Waterloo, Iowa, on 7 June 2010.
Title: Child_labour
Context: In December 2009, campaigners in the UK called on two leading high street retailers to stop selling clothes made with cotton which may have been picked by children. Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) accused H&M and Zara of using cotton suppliers in Bangladesh. It is also suspected that many of their raw materials originates from Uzbekistan, where children aged 10 are forced to work in the fields. The activists were calling to ban the use of Uzbek cotton and implement a "track and trace" systems to guarantee an ethical responsible source of the material.

question: Who accused H&M of using products made by child labours? 

answer: Anti-Slavery International and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)

question: Who else did they accuse of using child labor products? 

answer: Zara

question: What country did the cotton come from that was picked by children? 

answer: Bangladesh

question: What are activists trying to get implemented? 

answer: "track and trace" systems
Title: Child_labour
Context: In 2008, the BBC reported that the company Primark was using child labor in the manufacture of clothing. In particular, a £4 hand-embroidered shirt was the starting point of a documentary produced by BBC's Panorama programme. The programme asks consumers to ask themselves, "Why am I only paying £4 for a hand embroidered top? This item looks handmade. Who made it for such little cost?", in addition to exposing the violent side of the child labour industry in countries where child exploitation is prevalent.

question: Who did the BBC in 2008 report as using child labor? 

answer: Primark

question: What does Primark produce? 

answer: clothing

question: What did the BBC program make their viewers question? 

answer: "Why am I only paying £4 for a hand embroidered top?

question: What else did the BBC expose? 

answer: the violent side of the child labour industry
Title: Child_labour
Context: Primark continued to investigate the allegations for three years, concluding that BBC report was a fake. In 2011, following an investigation by the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, the BBC announced, "Having carefully scrutinised all of the relevant evidence, the committee concluded that, on the balance of probabilities, it was more likely than not that the Bangalore footage was not authentic." BBC subsequently apologised for faking footage, and returned the television award for investigative reporting.

question: How many years was Primark investigated for? 

answer: three years

question: What did they claim about the BBC report? 

answer: fake

question: What did the BBC do? 

answer: apologised for faking footage

question: What happened to the reward the BBC received? 

answer: returned the television award
Title: Child_labour
Context: Concerns have often been raised over the buying public's moral complicity in purchasing products assembled or otherwise manufactured in developing countries with child labour. However, others have raised concerns that boycotting products manufactured through child labour may force these children to turn to more dangerous or strenuous professions, such as prostitution or agriculture. For example, a UNICEF study found that after the Child Labour Deterrence Act was introduced in the US, an estimated 50,000 children were dismissed from their garment industry jobs in Bangladesh, leaving many to resort to jobs such as "stone-crushing, street hustling, and prostitution", jobs that are "more hazardous and exploitative than garment production". The study suggests that boycotts are "blunt instruments with long-term consequences, that can actually harm rather than help the children involved."

question: What do some feel may happen if child labour products were completely rejected by society as a whole? 

answer: may force these children to turn to more dangerous or strenuous professions, such as prostitution

question: What happened to the 50,000 children in the UNICEF study? 

answer: stone-crushing, street hustling, and prostitution"

question: What does the study say in regards to boycotts? 

answer: that can actually harm rather than help the children involved."
Title: Child_labour
Context: According to Milton Friedman, before the Industrial Revolution virtually all children worked in agriculture. During the Industrial Revolution many of these children moved from farm work to factory work. Over time, as real wages rose, parents became able to afford to send their children to school instead of work and as a result child labour declined, both before and after legislation. Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard said that British and American children of the pre- and post-Industrial Revolution lived and suffered in infinitely worse conditions where jobs were not available for them and went "voluntarily and gladly" to work in factories.

question: Where did children work prior to the Industrial Revolution? 

answer: agriculture

question: How many children worked? 

answer: virtually all

question: Where did children go to work after doing farm work for so long? 

answer: factory work

question: What did parents do when the wages were finally raised? 

answer: send their children to school instead of work
Title: Child_labour
Context: According to Thomas DeGregori, an economics professor at the University of Houston, in an article published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank operating in Washington D.C., "it is clear that technological and economic change are vital ingredients in getting children out of the workplace and into schools. Then they can grow to become productive adults and live longer, healthier lives. However, in poor countries like Bangladesh, working children are essential for survival in many families, as they were in our own heritage until the late 19th century. So, while the struggle to end child labour is necessary, getting there often requires taking different routes—and, sadly, there are many political obstacles.

question: Where is Thomas DeGregori from? 

answer: University of Houston

question: What country does he argue needs child labor to survive? 

answer: Bangladesh

question: What are the obstacles he claims are to ending child labor? 

answer: political obstacles
Title: Child_labour
Context: The term child labour can be misleading when it confuses harmful work with employment that may be beneficial to children. It can also ignore harmful work outside employment and any benefits children normally derive from their work. Domestic work is an example: all families but the rich must work at cleaning, cooking, caring, and more to maintain their homes. In most families in the world, this process extends to productive activities, especially herding and various types of agriculture, and to a variety of small family businesses. Where trading is a significant feature of social life, children can start trading in small items at an early age, often in the company of family members or of peers.

question: What is benefical work for children? 

answer: Domestic work

question: What can children do in countries were trading is involved? 

answer: children can start trading in small items at an early age, often in the company of family members or of peers

question: All but what type of children must learn to clean? 

answer: rich
Title: Child_labour
Context: Work is undertaken from an early age by vast numbers of children in the world and may have a natural place in growing up. Work can contribute to the well-being of children in a variety of ways; children often choose to work to improve their lives, both in the short- and long-term. At the material level, children’s work often contributes to producing food or earning income that benefits themselves and their families; and such income is especially important when the families are poor. Work can provide an escape from debilitating poverty, sometimes by allowing a young person to move away from an impoverished environment. Young people often enjoy their work, especially paid work, or when work involves the company of peers. Even when work is intensive and enforced, children often find ways to combine their work with play.

question: What is a natural process of child development? 

answer: Work

question: What is an escape for the young that live in poverty? 

answer: Work

question: What are children able to do during intense work situations? 

answer: children often find ways to combine their work with play
Title: Child_labour
Context: While full-time work hinders schooling, empirical evidence is varied on the relationship between part-time work and school. Sometimes even part-time work may hinder school attendance or performance. On the other hand, many poor children work for resources to attend school. Children who are not doing well at school sometimes seek more satisfactory experience in work. Good relations with a supervisor at work can provide relief from tensions that children feel at school and home. In the modern world, school education has become so central to society that schoolwork has become the dominant work for most children, often replacing participation in productive work. If school curricula or quality do not provide children with appropriate skills for available jobs or if children do nor have the aptitude for schoolwork, school may impede the learning of skills, such as agriculture, which will become necessary for future livelihood.

question: What hinders schooling for child labourers? 

answer: full-time work

question: What can relieve tension for children at work? 

answer: Good relations with a supervisor

question: What can schools do to help children led to better work lives? 

answer: school may impede the learning of skills
Title: North_Carolina
Context: North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills. The extreme eastern section of the state contains the Outer Banks, a string of sandy, narrow barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and two inland waterways or "sounds": Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south. They are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States.

question: How many main geographical sections make up North Carolina? 

answer: three

question: What section of North carolina makes up 45% of the state? 

answer: Atlantic Coastal Plain

question: What is the section in the middle 35% of North Carolina called? 

answer: the Piedmont region

question: Tha Appalacian mountains and foothills make up a region of what state? 

answer: North Carolina

question: The extreme eastern section of North Carolina is called what? 

answer: Outer Banks