What do you do if there is slave labour but no corresponding debt? When conditions akin to slave labour arise - what does it mean for state policy? I read today that there are 10 million child labourers in India today. This in a country with rampant unemployment and underemployment of adults. It goes against all logic why there should even be employment of children.
When will things change? Governments make laws. The private sector should comply. When the market fails, the government steps in. Economists such as Keynes and civil society all agree - governments need to fill the gap. But what happens when there is government failure? When they are not regulating and supervising? Why should kids be working and wasting their youth? Why aren't they out playing in the park and worrying about a calculus question in the class test?
And why aren't NGOs - which are in a great number - along with organizations such as the UN and others being able to do something concrete about the situation?
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