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| Title: | Determinants of well-being and poverty changes in Cameroon: 2001-2007 |
| Authors: | Epo, Boniface Ngah Baye, Francis Menjo |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Periodical: | African Development Review (ISSN 1467-8268) |
| Volume: | 24 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 18-33 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Cameroon |
| Subjects: | social welfare households poverty |
| External link: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00302.x/pdf |
| Abstract: | This paper identifies and decomposes sources that explain household economic well-being in Cameroon. It uses the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon Household Consumption Surveys, synthetic variables constructed by the multiple correspondence analysis and econometric approaches that correct for potential endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity in a step-wise manner and simultaneously. Sources of well-being that explain poverty are then decomposed into growth and redistribution components. Variables that significantly explain household economic well-being are education, health, household size, fraction of active household members, working in the formal sector and area of residence. Decomposition analysis shows that the growth components largely account for changes in deprivation in terms of each regressed-income source. With the exception of the income source education, redistribution components slowed down progress in alleviating shortfall in other regressed-income sources. These results have implications for public interventions that affect education and health for all, labour market participation and infrastructure development. App., bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |
