Poverty and Child Farm Labor in Africa: Wealth Paradox or bad Orthodoxy
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Child labor; Poverty; Cocoa sector; Econometric modeling; Côte d’Ivoire;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
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