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

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  • Jean-Pierre Lachaud

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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.

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  • Jean-Pierre Lachaud, 2008. "Le travail des enfants et la pauvreté en Afrique : un réexamen appliqué au Burkina Faso," Economie & Prévision, La Documentation Française, vol. 0(5), pages 47-65.
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    1. Moussa KEITA, 2014. "Pauvreté et arbitrage entre scolarisation et travail des enfants au Mali," Working Papers 201418, CERDI.
    2. ABALO, Kodzovi, 2012. "Child labor in agricultural households in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mali: test of the luxury axiom by a fuzzy sets theory approach," MPRA Paper 54940, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Abalo, Kodzovi, 2012. "Enquete sur les conditions de travail des enfants issus des ménages agricoles en Afrique de l'Ouest [A Survey of the Child Labor in West Africa]," MPRA Paper 66382, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. ABALO, Kodzovi, 2011. "Etude comparative des conditions de travail des enfants issus des ménages agricoles au Burkina Faso, en Cote d’Ivoire et au Mali [Comparative study of working conditions of children from agricultural households in Burkina Faso, Cote d’ivoire and M," MPRA Paper 54939, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. F. Blanco & M. G. Breglia & L. Guarcello & C. Valdivia, 2008. "Violence against children:preliminary evidence from Colombia, El Salvador, Cambodia and Ecuador," UCW Working Paper 41, Understanding Children's Work (UCW Programme).
    6. Abou, Pokou Edouard, 2015. "Incidence du travail domestique, des caractéristiques de l’école et du ménage sur les résultats scolaires des filles en Côte d’Ivoire [Incidence of domestic work, school and household characteristics on educational outcomes of girls in Cote d'Ivoi," MPRA Paper 43976, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    7. Mahnaz Muhammad Ali & Mariam Abbas Soharwardi, 2022. "Economic Cost of Education and Behavior of Parents towards Child Labor," Journal of Economic Impact, Science Impact Publishers, vol. 4(1), pages 07-13.

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    JEL classification:

    • I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
    • J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets

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