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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the development of subsistence agriculture is the best way to assure food security in developing countries. The objective of this study fits into this logic in that it analyzes the impact of subsistence farming to food security in...
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In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework … provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from … ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of poverty and social exclusion (respectively 0.4008 and 0.2291), are …
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is an anti-poverty line. The proposed affluence line is derived here based on the principle of transfer of resources of …
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decomposition. Results in deprivation analysis and inequalities related reveal some new insights about the poverty situation in the … country, which contrasts with the results available from traditional poverty analysis. We observe respectively, high …
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From a multidimensional analysis of poverty which enables us, through the use of technique of fuzzy sets, to construct … a poverty indicator in this perspective in Cameroon, we analyse the poverty gaps in our country by making use of the … Dagum sub-group decomposition (1997) which breaks down the Gini index into three components. Poverty analysis revealed that …
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's capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as … economic capabilities (employment, leisure) are those which explain the high level of total poverty. These results are …
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. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for … coefficient of variation squared. Second, the generalized bipolarization measure is defined and related to poverty via the …
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