Author(s)

Samuel Ambapour^1*, Jean Christophe Okandza², Hylod Armel Moussana¹

¹Institut National de la Statistique, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
²Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.

According to the well-known hypothesis stated in “The New Home Economics”, theory that it associated with the name of Becker, poverty leads to a high fertility. Throughout this text, this hypothesis will be tested using data from the 2005 Demographic and Health Survey of Congo, knowing that poverty will be tackled in a non-monetary and multidimensional approach; and fertility in a parity view, that is to say the number of children a woman gave birth during the five years preceding the survey.

Critical Assets, Capabilities, Fertility, Functionings, Socio-Economic Stratification, Parity

Ambapour, S. , Okandza, J. and Moussana, H. (2016) Multidimensional Poverty and Fertility in Congo. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 137-149. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.43020.