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...

French abstract: Cette étude analyse les évolutions de la polarisation et de l’inégalité dans la distribution des dépenses au Cameroun pendant et après les programmes d’ajustement structurel. Nombres de mesures sont utilisés et les estimations sont obtenues à partir des données...

This paper investigates the determinants of employment vulnerability among private sector workers and assesses it effects on private sector household income in Cameroon. To address these objectives, use is made of multiple correspondence and the IV econometric analyses. Econometric results...

This paper studies the contributions of sector-specific and between-sector employment effects in accounting for aggregate poverty changes in Cameroon. We observed that the decrease in poverty among tertiary and secondary sector workers was considerably accounted for by the within-sector effects,...

This study evaluates the redistributive and welfare effects of reforms in indirect taxes in Rwanda. Specifically, its aim is to determine the effects of the 2002 reforms of the value added tax (VAT) rate on aggregate household welfare; assessing the impact of this reform on welfare distribution...