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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 40, Issue 8, Pages 1663-1674Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.03.017
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small-scale mining; child labor; gold; poverty; Mali; sub-Saharan Africa
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This paper contributes to the debate on child labor in small-scale mining communities, focusing specifically on the situation in sub-Saharan Africa. It argues that the child labor now widespread in many of the region's small-scale mining communities is a product of a combination of cultural issues, household-level poverty, and rural livelihood diversification. Experiences from Komana West, a subsistence gold panning area in Southern Mali, are drawn upon to make this case. The findings suggest that the sector's child labor problem is far more nuanced than international organizations and policymakers have diagnosed. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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