Consider the debate mentioned previously concerning child labor in the developing world
some policy makers in impoverished country is to increase exports
this brings in hard currency with which the country and pay for food medicine and education and repay debts
increasing exports will raise the standard of living for all citizens and thereby meet the utilitarian goals of improving the collective good
however to increase exports a country must be capable of selling their goods at costs below that of competing countries
since labor is a major production costs keeping labor costs low helps the country as a whole
unfortunately one means for maintaining low labor costs is to employ young children
cases of child labor in the manufacture of sneakers and clothing are only the most well publicized instances of an all too common phenomena