This paper studies the decomposition of poverty changes in Cameroon. Specifically, it reviews theoretical frameworks for growth-redistribution decomposition analyses, presents the data and poverty measures and estimates the growth-redistribution components of changes in measured poverty by the...

This study reviews the theoretical framework of sectoral decomposition and source decomposition. It isolates the sector-specific and the between-sector effects in accounting for aggregate poverty change in Cameroon using an exact decomposition and accounts for changes in household labour income...

This article analyzes pro‐poor growth of multiple dimensions of household well‐being by sector of activity in Cameroon. It uses (1) a polychoric principal component analysis to construct indicators of household asset endowments, (2) the growth incidence curve to analyze the pro‐poorness of...