Author: Laurent NdjanyouPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966023582
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Characteristics and Determinants of Child Labour in Cameroon
Author: Laurent NdjanyouPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966023582
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Incidence and Determinants of Child Labour in Nigeria
Author: Benjamin Chiedozie OkpukparaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Child Labor in Côte D'Ivoire
Author: Christiaan GrootaertPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Børnearbejde
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
March 1998 Most children in Côte d'Ivoire perform some kind of work. In rural areas, more than four of five children work, with only a third combining work with schooling. Child labor in Côte d'Ivoire increased in the 1980s because of a severe economic crisis. Two out of three urban children aged 7 to 17 work; half of them also attend school. In rural areas, more than four out of five children work, but only a third of them manage to combine work with schooling. Full-time work is less prevalent, but not negligible. Roughly 7 percent of urban children work full time (an average 46 hours a week). More than a third of rural children work full time (an average of 35 hours a week), with the highest incidence in the Savannah region. The incidence of such full-time work rises with age but is by no means limited to older children. The average age of the full-time child worker in Côte d'Ivoire is 12.7. These children have received an average 1.2 years of schooling. That child is also more likely to be ill or injured and is less likely to receive medical attention than other children. Urban children in the interior cities are far more likely to work and their working hours are much longer. Among rural children, those in the Savannah region (where educational infrastructure lags far behind the rest of the country) are most likely to work. Five factors affect a household's decision to supply child labor: * The age and gender of the child (girls are more likely to work, especially when the head of household is a woman). * The education and employment status of the parents (low parental education is a good targeting variable for interventions). * The availability of within-household employment opportunities. * The household's poverty status. * The household's location (calling for geographical targeting). With improved macroeconomic growth, it is hoped, child labor will decline-but a significant decline could take several generations. Meanwhile, it is important to: * Use a gradual approach toward the elimination of child work by aiming initial interventions at facilitating combined work and schooling. * Support the development of home enterprises as part of poverty alleviation programs, but combine it with incentives for school attendance. * Make school hours and vacation periods flexible (accommodating harvest times) in rural areas. This would also improve children's health. * Improve rural school attendance by having a school in the village rather than 1 to 5 kilometers away. * Improve educational investment in the Savannah. This paper is a product of the Social Development Department. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project Child Labor: What Role for Demand-Side Interventions (RPO 680-64). The author may be contacted at [email protected].
Child Labour in Yaoundé-Cameroon
Author: Roger Tsafack-NanfossoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Although child labour is a phenomenon widely studied around the world, there are few papers that tackle the problem in Cameroon. The objective of this paper is to fill the gap by questioning the subject in Yaoundé, the capital city. But child labour phenomenon is analysed here from a questionnaire that has two distinctive features: (i) the questionnaire is exclusively devoted to child labour, and (ii) all the participants in the survey are exclusively children themselves. No adult (parent, guardian, elder, employer, etc.) was consulted and given a chance to answer on behalf of a child. This process is extremely rare in child labour, since in general individuals other than children are requested to testify and answer inslead of children. While some results obtained from a standard Logit model on the determinant of child labour are well known, the others are either not known or insignificant. We suspect that the reason is the data collection.
Characteristics and Determinants of Underemployment in Cameroon
Author: Hyéfouais Ngniodem Achille StéphanePublisher:
ISBN: 9789966610683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Determinants of Child Labour and Child Schooling in Ghana
Author: Ranjan RayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780859018920
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Child Labor in Cote D'Ivoire
Author: Christian GrootaertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Most children in Cote d'I ...
A Re-examination of the Determinants of Child Labour in Côte D'Ivoire
Author: Edouard Pokou AbouPublisher:
ISBN: 9789966023766
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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The Economic Impact of Child Labour
Author: Rossana GalliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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National Report on Child Labour in Cameroun
Author: National Institute of Statistics (Cameroon)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description