Child beggars form a specific category of child workers. They are generally associated with street-living children, as defined by Unicef. Analysis of begging thus generally focuses on children?s survival strategies. Using data from an exploratory survey conducted in Antananarivo in autumn 2009,...

In a context where credit is squeezed, the shocks to which household are exposed impact on child work. This article analyses the impact of a drought on the Morondava rural district in Madagascar in 2006. This is a rice growing area. We used data from the surveys conducted by the Réseau des...

In this article we present the definition of child labour. According to the ILO, a child is considered as a worker if he is under the age of 18 and being economically active meaning that the fruit of his labour is destinated either directly or indirectly to the market. We have shown the limit of...

Social capital appears only very rarely in the nomenclature related to the management of forest resources in Morocco. Far from being a semantic detail, this lexical omission comes as a revelation of a policy change. Public authorities have established, in spite of the positive externalities that...

In Social Choice Theory, Pareto-Unanimity is an important rule which is applied to compensation tests and therefore in justice. But, deductive logics show that Pareto- Unanimity implies dictatorship and therefore, Pareto-Unanimity is contradictory with non dictatorship. In the case of...

The economic theory considers education as the perfect substitute of child labour. Education is presented like a homogeneous institution, the only way possible to get children out from the labour market. We distinguish formal and informal education. Each household according to its financial...

Family businesses operating mainly in the informal economy in East Java, Indonesia, generally employ family members and neighbours. As part of a qualitative study on employer-employee relationships, we interviewed the owners of 37 of these family businesses (30 small and 7 medium) to investigate...