Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon
Title | Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Wokia-azi Ndangle Kumase |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 171 |
Release | 2018 |
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Poverty and inequality remain extremely high for Cameroon despite improvements in poverty figures between 1996 and 2001. To understand the dynamics of poverty and inequality between 1996 and 2001, this book develops a poverty and inequality profile, investigates the sources of inequality along spatial lines and simulates some policies which could be used in the reduction of poverty and inequality. The book also addresses two major sectors of the Cameroonian economy with a special focus on gender bias in agriculture and linkages between the formal and informal sector. The empirical analyses show that there are large spatial differences in poverty in Cameroon and that sources of inequality vary by location. Regardless of the definition used, the informal sector in Cameroon is extremely large but closely linked to the formal sector. The gender bias experienced by women in access to productive assets in agriculture reduces the efficiency of agricultural production.
Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon
Title | Aspects of Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Wokia-azi Ndangle Kumase |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9783631595350 |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Geottingen, 2009.
Comparisons of Urban and Rural Poverty Determinants in Cameroon
Title | Comparisons of Urban and Rural Poverty Determinants in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Fambon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Cameroon |
ISBN | 9789966023629 |
Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon
Title | Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Ningaye |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Income distribution |
ISBN | 9789966778819 |
The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon
Title | The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Arnault Emini |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Free trade |
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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 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2 percent in 2001, mostly due to economic growth rather than redistribution. Will the current trade negotiations under the Doha Round reinforce or curb this trend? They apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model that involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The authors find the Doha Round to be poverty-reducing for Cameroon. For the whole country, the estimate of the net number of people who are lifted out of poverty is 22,000 following this scenario. Further investigations indicate that more ambitious world trade liberalization leads to greater poverty alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts-despite giving rise to higher aggregate welfare. Under the Doha scenario, the cuts in Cameroon's tariffs are very small (the average tariff rate moves from 11.79 percent in the base run to merely 11.66 percent) so that world trade liberalization effects on prices more than offset the adverse own liberalization effects in this scenario. If the rest of the world and Cameroon full trade liberalizations are combined, the adverse impacts of own liberalization outweigh the favorable outcomes of the world trade liberalization. The results suggest furthermore that the choice of tax replacement instrument can have an important bias in poverty impacts: poverty gets worse in the country case study when using an imperfect value-added tax instead of a neutral replacement tax to compensate lost tariff revenue, and gets even worse when using a consumption tax. Key reasons here are the supplementary distortions which are nil in case of a neutral tax and greatest in the case of a consumption tax. In addition, accompanying measures should be considered to avoid poverty increases in the framework of Economic Partnership Agreements currently in negotiation between African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries and the European Union, which propose a drastic dismantlement of ACP tariffs over the next few years.
Cameroon
Title | Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | International Monetary Fund. African Dept. |
Publisher | International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | 63 |
Release | 2018-08-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1484373383 |
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Multi-asset Deprivation and Pro-poor Growth in Cameroon
Title | Multi-asset Deprivation and Pro-poor Growth in Cameroon PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Tino Ayamena Mpenya |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 75 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Assets (Accounting) |
ISBN | 9789966610096 |