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

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 .

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