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The article discusses a study which examined why children participate in activities that are labeled worst forms of child labor (WFCL). The study used data from a survey of children actually engaged in Nepal's WFCL, whether being a route porter or rag picker, and combined with estimates of incidence from Nepal's general population. Findings revealed that there are negative amenities associated with being a porter or rag picker that induces the poor and those with few earning options to join Nepal's WFCL.

This study considers sibling differences in child labor in Nepal. The data are consistent with a model where parents care equally for all children but siblings differ in comparative advantage in household production, although parental preferences and credit constraints could also be important. Girls, especially older girls, tend to work more than their brothers. This extra work increases with the number of younger siblings and the spacing between siblings. The extra work performed by girls is such that, at modal birth spacing, the younger girl actually spends significantly more time working than her older brother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the role of official development assistance (ODA) in program implementation in an aid-recipient country. Discussion of Nepal's experiences in transferring all of its forest land from the central government to local communities; Implications of the finding that implementation of an institutional reform depends on the type and source of ODA; Historical background of forestry in Nepal.