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Household in developing countries use a variety of informal and formal mechanisms to cope with risk, including mutual … and social protection both formal and informal. Using dataset of Cameroon’s survey on employment and informal sector (EESI … in Cameroon. …
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In this study, we construct an affluence line for the country, using Cameroonian Households surveys (2007). This line is an anti-poverty line. The proposed affluence line is derived here based on the principle of transfer of resources of the richest to the poorest
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in Cameroon. The study employs the fuzzy-set framework to analyze deprivation and inequalities through Dagum sub group … deprivation degrees for household ‘essential’ items such as health, education and housing and a small Gini index for inequalities …
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of subsistence farming to food security in Cameroon. Data from the FAO and the World Bank over the period 1961-2007 were … functioning, the development of road and market infrastructures etc., positively impact on food security in Cameroon. However …
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poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as …
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preceding results are applied to analyze the Cameroonian household’s consumption distribution. …
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Background: Health impacts related to climate change are potentially an increasing problem in Cameroon, especially … conditions in schools and to evaluate the impact of heat on schoolchildren’s health during school days in the Cameroon cities of …
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a poverty indicator in this perspective in Cameroon, we analyse the poverty gaps in our country by making use of the …
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In this article, we evaluate, from the point of view of banks, the potential of articulations between commercial banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cameroun in terms of financing of the rural and the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). Furthermore, we seek to define the best...
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This paper uses the fuzzy set theory recently suggested by Cerioli and Zani (1990) and Dagum and Costa (2004) to derive a methodology to construct a Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) measurement index. Using the formulation of the index, it also derives the contribution of different attributes...
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