Historically, the area of Sialkot, Pakistan has been the global headquarters for the creation of soccer balls.

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This is where competitors such as China, which makes machine-stitched balls, and India have gained ground at Sialkot's expense.

ECONOMIST: Ending child labour can have unexpected consequences

The Fair Trade Labeling Organization hooked him up with a factory in Sialkot, Pakistan that pays well and doesn't hire children.

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Australia, South Africa and India each have two teams in the competition with Middlesex and Pakistan's Sialkot Stallions making up the numbers.

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ILO's chief technical adviser in Sialkot, puts it.

ECONOMIST: Ending child labour can have unexpected consequences

The reason to incur these costs is that the benefits that children, families and employers in Sialkot can expect once former child labourers finish school (ie, a more productive and higher paid adult workforce) far outweigh the short-term costs.

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