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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy

Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...

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Tracking Poverty Over Time in the Absence of Comparable Consumption Data

Stifel, David C. - 2014

Following the endorsement of the Millennium Development Goals, there is an increasing demand for methods to track poverty regularly. This paper develops an economically intuitive and inexpensive methodology to do so in the absence of regular, comparable data on household consumption. The minimum...

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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation

Verme, Paolo - 2008

This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...

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A Counterfactual Analysis of the Poverty Impact of Economic Growth in Cameroon

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2017

The Government of Cameroon has declared poverty reduction through strong and sustainable economic growth the central objective of its socioeconomic policy. This paper uses available household survey data to assess the performance of the economy with respect to this objective over the period...

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The Impact of Roads on Poverty Reduction : A Case Study of Cameroon

Gachassin, Marie - 2017

Many investments in infrastructure are built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to poverty reduction and income generation. This has entailed massive aid-financed projects in roads in developing countries. However, the lack of robust evaluations and a comprehensive theoretical...

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A Financial Social Accounting Matrix for the Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis : Application to Cameroon with a Fixed-Price Multiplier Analysis

Emini, Christian Arnault; Fofack, Hippolyte - 2013

Cameroon is engaged in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) process, which emphasizes increased focus on poverty reduction in the design and implementation of growth and adjustment strategies. The Integrated Macroeconomic Model for Poverty Analysis (IMMPA) framework recently developed at...

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Non-Farm Diversification, Poverty, Economic Mobility and Income Inequality : a Case Study in Village India

Lanjouw, Peter F. (contributor); Murgai, Rinku (contributor) - 2017

suggestion from the combined National Sample Survey and Palanpur data is of a slow process of non-farm diversification, whose … diversification could thus yield significant returns in terms of declining poverty and increased income mobility. The evidence from … diversification away from the farm. A growing literature argues that such a rise in inequality could affect the fabric of village …

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Income and Energy Consumption in Mexican Households

Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo - 2017

The analysis of household energy consumption patterns is critical for evaluating public mechanisms, such as subsidies and social tariffs that aim to provide lower income earners with better access to energy sources. This paper focuses on Mexican households to analyze the relations between their...

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The Impact of Wealth on the Amount and Quality of Child Labor

Del Carpio, Ximena V. - 2017

This paper analyzes to what extent, and under what conditions, an increase in household wealth affects the use of child labor in poor households. It develops a simple theoretical model, which uses child labor, training, and schooling to maximize household income over time, subject to resource...

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The Economic Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Household Consumption and Investment in Indonesia

Adams, Jr., Richard H. - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of international remittances on poverty and household consumption and investment using panel data (2000 and 2007) from the Indonesian Family Life Survey. Three key findings emerge. First, using an instrumental variables approach to control for selection and...

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