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The Government of Cameroon has declared poverty reduction through strong and sustainable economic growth the central … accompanied by significant poverty reduction between 1996 and 2001. But poverty barely decreased between 2001 and 2007 due to very …
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Many investments in infrastructure are built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to poverty reduction and … impact on poverty than expected. Isolation from a tarred road is found to have no direct impact on consumption expenditures … access to roads is only one factor contributing to poverty reduction (and not necessarily the most important in many cases …
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The Cameroonian authorities found irregularities while implementing the first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP …
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The growth rate of agriculture in Cameroon was estimated at 3.3 percent in 2006, compared with 2.7 percent in 2005. This is owing to increased activity in the food agriculture sector (4.3 percent) and in forestry and logging (4.0 percent). Livestock farming and fisheries, on the one hand, grew...
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poverty has been analyzed. The pillars of the short- and medium-term growth and poverty reduction strategy have been described …. The paper provides a quantitative assessment and costing of Cameroon’s poverty reduction strategy, a consistency check … how the poverty reduction strategy will be monitored and evaluated …
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This paper discusses key findings of the Fifth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) for …
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This 2007 Article IV Consultation highlights that a number of factors have constrained Cameroon’s growth potential relative to the group of lower-middle-income economies, including lower investment rate, shallower financial depth, less open trade; weaker infrastructure and human capital base; and...
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The government of Cameroon adopted its first Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) to define the overall framework …
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This paper evaluates Cameroon’s 2002 Article IV Consultation, Third Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth …
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Overall, the program's macroeconomic targets have been broadly met. The program embodies a renewed emphasis on the non-oil revenue mobilization effort and continuation of a prudent expenditure stance. Reversing the deterioration of the financial operations of the public companies and the...
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