The purpose of the paper is to analyze the consideration assigned to work by minors in the public agenda – notwithstanding express prohibition by law – within the wider context of policies concerning Argentinean development at large. In this respect, social scientists and geographers focus their interest on political and social actors, processes and institutions concerned with the rights of children. The existence of structural economic factors is noted, which place Corrientes in a disadvantaged position in terms of activity, employment as well as poverty, conditions that remain because of political problems and a climate of permanent conflict. Local incompetence of the state and budgetary dependence on the national government that centralizes public funds to be distri-buted at will, severely harms provincial interests in the light of frequent ideological confrontation.