Many investments in infrastructure are built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to poverty reduction and … Cameroon case study, this paper demonstrates that investing uniformly in tarred roads in Africa is likely to have a much lower … impact on poverty than expected. Isolation from a tarred road is found to have no direct impact on consumption expenditures …

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. We … found to be poverty reducing for Cameroon. For the whole country, the estimate of net number of people who are lifted out of … leads to greater poverty alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse …

Cameroon. The specific objectives are: (i) to estimate the proportion of the budget which is really acquired by the end users …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during this period. A double calibration technique within a micro …

The Government of Cameroon has declared poverty reduction through strong and sustainable economic growth the central … employment, access to credit, education, and urban residence are characteristics that bring significantly high returns to … households. Employment in smallholder agriculture has a negative impact on welfare across quantiles. Economic growth was …

The authors aim to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the … recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty, with the headcount index falling from 53 …-reducing for Cameroon. For the whole country, the estimate of the net number of people who are lifted out of poverty is 22 …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during this period. A double calibration technique within a micro …

This paper studies the decomposition of poverty changes in Cameroon. Specifically, it reviews theoretical frameworks …-redistribution components of changes in measured poverty by the Shapley value-based approach using Cameroon's household surveys. By all the P … distributionally neutral growth in household incomes to poverty alleviation in Cameroon. Although redistribution also has an important …