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Article

14 Sep 2004

Author:
Edward Luce, Financial Times

Ikea's grown up plan to tackle child labour [India]

[W]hen foreign companies have set up schools for former child workers, it has not always worked...Ikea's child labour initiative aims to give financial independence to poorer women in India's carpet belt...Dipankar Gupta, a leading Indian sociologist..., says the scheme is credible because it is based on commercial interests. Ikea, like its competitors, has a commercial stake in minimising child labour because bad publicity harms business. [also refers to Deluxe Carpets, KPMG, Nike]