Impact of Access to Microcredit on the Well-being of Households and Poverty Change in Cameroon: 2001-200
| dc.contributor.author | Ngah, Otabela Nadège | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-19T18:15:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-04-19T18:15:35Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-04-19 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Using data from the second and third Cameroonian household surveys, this study analyzes the relationship between access to microcredit, household well-being, and poverty change in Cameroon. It uses a combination of two methods of analysis: the instrumental variable method for controlling the potential endogeneity of access to increased microcredit by correcting for selection bias; and a method for breaking down poverty change into intra-growth, intra-redistribution, and inter-sector mobility components based on Shapley's value. The latter is based on comparison of evidencebased and hypothetical/non-factual distributions. The key findings reveal that access to microcredit: (i) significantly and positively affects the level of well-being of households and financial inclusion, particularly through education; (ii) has an impact on poverty change and that this effect is brought about by the redistribution component and primary sector; (iii) positively and significantly influences the intra-sector redistribution component of poverty change through the intra-sector growth and mobility components. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-9966-61-124-6 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://18.184.231.194/handle/123456789/1971 | |
| dc.publisher | AERC | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Research Paper 426;RP 426 | |
| dc.subject | Microcredit, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Well-being, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non-factual/hypothetical analysis, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Shapley analysis, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Household surveys, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cameroon | en_US |
| dc.title | Impact of Access to Microcredit on the Well-being of Households and Poverty Change in Cameroon: 2001-200 | en_US |