Le travail des enfants et la pauvreté en Afrique: un réexamen appliqué au Burkina Faso

Jean-Pierre Lachaud

Economie & Prévision, 2008, vol. n° 186, issue 5, 47-65

Abstract: The study examines the impact of poverty on child labor. First, the ?luxury axiom? seems relatively robust. Econometric analysis shows that the proportion of economically active children aged 5-14 is definitely higher in ?poor? households than in ?non-poor? households. Second, child labor may reflect household strategy aimed at minimizing the risk of interruption in the income stream. Such results should be interpreted in the context of two phenomena: (1) the increase in total poverty between 1998 and 2003, which involved a fall in lasting poverty and a rise in transient poverty; (2) a slowdown in the redistribution process conducted through remittances from Côte d?Ivoire.

Keywords: durable and transient poverty; child labor; child schooling; spatial econometrics; Burkina Faso; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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