Decomposing multidimensional child poverty and its drivers in the Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso, West Africa.

Autor: Fonta CL; L'instut de La Recherche en Science de La Sante, l'Unité de Recherche Clinique sise à Nanoro (l'URCN), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. cynfonta@gmail.com.; School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, 8 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TZ, UK. cynfonta@gmail.com., Yameogo TB; West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Competence Center, Blvd Mouammar Kadhafi, Ouagadougou, 06 BP 9507, Burkina Faso., Tinto H; L'instut de La Recherche en Science de La Sante, l'Unité de Recherche Clinique sise à Nanoro (l'URCN), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso., van Huysen T; The Earth Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA., Natama HM; L'instut de La Recherche en Science de La Sante, l'Unité de Recherche Clinique sise à Nanoro (l'URCN), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso., Compaore A; L'instut de La Recherche en Science de La Sante, l'Unité de Recherche Clinique sise à Nanoro (l'URCN), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso., Fonta WM; West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use, Competence Center, Blvd Mouammar Kadhafi, Ouagadougou, 06 BP 9507, Burkina Faso.; The Earth Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, USA.; Climate Change and Green Growth Department (PECG), African Development Bank, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC public health [BMC Public Health] 2020 Jan 31; Vol. 20 (1), pp. 149. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jan 31.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-8254-3
Abstrakt: Background: The global poverty profile shows that Africa and Asia bear the highest burden of multidimensional child poverty. Child survival and development therefore depend on socioeconomic and environmental factors that surround a child.The aim of this paper is to measure multidimensional child poverty and underpin what drives it among children aged 5 to 18 years in a resource poor region of Burkina Faso.
Methods: Using primary data collected from a cross sectional study of 722 households in the Mouhoun region of Burkina Faso, the Alkire-Foster methodology was applied to estimate and decompose child poverty among children aged 5-18 years. Seven broad dimensions guided by the child poverty literature, data availability and the country's SDGs were used. A binary logistic regression model was applied to identify drivers of multidimensional child poverty in the region.
Results: The highest prevalence of deprivations were recorded in water and sanitation (91%), information and leisure (89%) followed by education (83%). Interestingly, at k = 3 (the sum of weighted indicators that a child must be deprived to be considered multidimensionally poor), about 97% of children are deprived in at least three of the seven dimensions. At k = 4 to k = 6, between 88.7 and 30.9% of children were equally classified as suffering from multidimensional poverty. The odds of multidimensional poverty were reduced in children who belonged to households with a formally educated mother (OR = 0.49) or stable sources of income (OR = 0.31, OR = 0.33). The results equally revealed that being an adolescent (OR = 0.67), residing in the urban area of Boromo (OR = 0.13) and rural area of Safané (OR = 0.61) reduced the odds of child poverty. On the other hand, child poverty was highest among children from the rural area of Yé (OR = 2.74), polygamous households (OR = 1.47, OR = 5.57 and OR = 1.96), households with an adult head suffering from a longstanding illness (OR = 1.61), households with debts (OR = 1.01) and households with above five number of children/woman (OR = 1.49).
Conclusion: Child poverty is best determined by using a multidimensional approach that involves an interplay of indicators and dimensions, bearing in mind its causation.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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