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Brazil

The paper's clearest policy success story. The Bolsa Família conditional cash transfer, combined with raising the minimum working age from 14 to 16, drove a sustained decline in urban child labor — though rural and agricultural work persists.

5.3%

Children working

ILO / UNICEF

98%

School attendance rate

World Bank

Below median

Vs. the 6-country study

Gupta, IJARESM 2025

Where children work

Agriculture, street vending, domestic work, construction, retail

Other countries in the study