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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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in Cameroon. The study employs the fuzzy-set framework to analyze deprivation and inequalities through Dagum sub group … 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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a poverty indicator in this perspective in Cameroon, we analyse the poverty gaps in our country by making use of the …From a multidimensional analysis of poverty which enables us, through the use of technique of fuzzy sets, to construct … Dagum sub-group decomposition (1997) which breaks down the Gini index into three components. Poverty analysis revealed that …
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poverty in Cameroon. From our application, we can see that in most cases, human capabilities (instruction, housing) as well as …'s capabilities approach presents poverty as a deprivation of elementary functioning in terms of housing, health, employment, leisure … 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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anti-poverty obtained through equity. For the estimation of this line, we used Cameroonian Households surveys (2007). …
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This article investigates the relationships among economic growth, income distribution and poverty in Brazil during the … variations in the poverty indicators and the main components that answer for this variation - decomposition model;another that … simulates the effects of the variation of the income and the concentration indicators on the poverty level - model of elasticity …
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This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …
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