Corporate Engagement to Address Child Labour: A Focus on Dhaka periphery

Abstract

<p><em>Child labour is a number one issue hindering the growth and development of children in Bangladesh. This is one of the crucial issues that deprives the children of schooling, enjoying childhood and drives them to hazardous jobs regardless of their kinds and nature. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) describes the general responsibility of a company for sustainable management in an economical, ecological and social respect. The paper emphasized to explore an innovative approach of eradicating child labour through corporate engagement.It also tries to demonstrate successful engagement of private sector in marketable skill development and decent employment of adolescents and youth in peripheral Dhaka. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches have been blended in this study; primary and secondary sources were used to produce this paper.</em></p>

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