TITLE:
Artisanal Mining, Employment and Empowerment in the North and East of Côte d’Ivoire
AUTHORS:
Romuald Guédé, El Hadj Ali Gbané, Allou Tolla Koffi
KEYWORDS:
Artisanal Mining, Empowerment, Employment, Logit
JOURNAL NAME:
Theoretical Economics Letters,
Vol.9 No.8,
December
13,
2019
ABSTRACT: This study aims to analyze the impact of mining
activities and the empowerment of women on their involvement in household
development. This involvement is perceived through the level of empowerment of women in household.
Methodologically, an index of empowerment is designed from methods of inertia.
Then, employability of women in artisanal mine is modeled from her
characteristics. Finally, a logit model is established to measure factors
impacting women’s empowerment at household level. It emerges that the level of women’s empowerment in her household
increases as she earns an income of 60,000 FCFA and more per month. In
addition, 66.21% of women are autonomous at household level. Therefore, it is appropriate to re-examine current conditions of
employment of women, without favoring it
in less risky or affordable work.