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Chocolate, coffee, clothing, rare minerals from electronics, electronic assembly all have slavery and child labor issues globally. I don’t think the US and other wealthy countries are absolved of that horror just because we outlawed child labor for our own citizens but allow (and incentivize!) it when it’s outsourced.
The defense of Nehruvian economics--against all evidence and experience--would be funny if the consequences weren't so deadly. It, and the neighboring ideologies of Islamic Socialism in Pakistan and Bangladesh, left those countries far behind Asian competitors that didn't have that much of a head start at the time of independence. Pointing to the least bad implementation of that tragic idea isn't impressive to me.
This is simply not true. Essentially every capitalist country has had extensive child labor for long periods in their capitalist development. There was widespread child labor in the early 1900s U.S. - a very capitalist economy then and now. Many developing countries with capitalist economies (such as Ivory Coast and Ghana - you know, the ones in the article) also have extensive child labor today.
Of course capitalism doesn’t eliminate child labor overnight. Villages in Pakistan and to a lesser extent China would starve to death if you eliminated child labor overnight. But capitalism is the only system that has proven capable of nearly eliminating it from a society over time.
Yes. It seems to be necessary.