ABSTRACT
The chapter explains to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty, these measures need to go beyond simple bans on child labour or declarations about the right to education and address the underlying factors that push children into the labour force or keep them out of school. School feeding programmes combine the goals of reducing child labour and increasing children's education through nutritional incentives. The discussion of measures to prevent child labour and promote children's education has so far focused on measures directed towards children's well-being and education, even if they generally rely on the mediating agency of the mother to realise the goals of the intervention. The chapter includes secondary school stipends for girls in Bangladesh, higher value of cash transfers for girls' education in Mexico and additional take-home rations for girls who attend school in Pakistan, all of which have proved effective in achieving a reduction of gender disparities in education.
