This is the 6th in a series of reports on child labor prepared by the Bur. of Internat. Labor Affairs. It examines: the economic costs of child labor related to insufficient schooling; the reasons why child labor exists; & policy strategies & programs aimed at removing the barriers that prevent children from moving from work to school. Considers child labor to be any work that prevents a child from going to school, or that restricts a child from accessing quality schooling. Schooling almost always leads to better outcomes, both socially & economically, than working for children. These results should hold even more strongly in the case of children working under abusive & exploitative conditions.