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 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...