Altruism and Poverty in an African Context

François-Régis Mahieu
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François-Régis Mahieu: University of Versailles

Chapter 10 in The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism, 2000, pp 196-203 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Absolute or relative poverty is a constraint on entitlements and thus on personal behaviour. But in most cases, people react by using their social environment: community, family, neighbourhood, kinship groups, informal markets, or any other possible social network. These networks are roughly based on altruistic interactions that are, in this chapter, materialized in informal transfers or pluri-activity.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-62745-5_10

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