Much of what we discus in economics is theory based; graphs, problem solving, etc. There is a whole other human componet that can be all too easily lost.
For intance, as the New York Times reminds us today many countries around the world rely on children, some as young at six years old as a source of labor. Some people in their countries would consider them a vital source of labor, thus income and a economic agent in the market system. They are cheap, they do not challenge their bosses and therefore they are a vital economic interest. But in the meantime, they are not being educated, well nourished or valued.
Read the article on some of these children from the New York Times, you will find the word document entitled Africa's World of Forced Labor posted on the school website at
www.lincoln.edu.ar/stephens/
What are some of the economic issues you see present in this article? We can link human rights and economics. How? Is it important to know if this is how countries help to grow their economies? I can't wait to see your ideas.
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Well I think that the connection between human and economics is very clear in this article because human is used as a economics machine, I mean that is used as a machine to produce money to the country or rise thir GDP, but the worst thing is that their are using kids as a machine, not old people or more strong people. We can also see in this article is that countries, mostly the poorest, how human rights are broken: hired little kids for do the work of older people, come on! thats no good ans mostly when your country is one of the poorest in world.
We see in this article that in order to have more supply, with less cost, companies hire the help of underage kids for very little money. If the exploitation of kids happened to disappear, it is more than likely that prices would go up, because it would cost more to manufacture goods. The fact that the children are stolen from the right of education also erases the chance for the poor country to grow economically, because the people will always be poor laborers.
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