Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Cameroon
| dc.contributor.author | Njong, Aloysius Mom | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-25T11:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-25T11:23:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06 | |
| dc.description | HC 995 . Z9 P657 2010 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The study investigates poverty comparisons across the various strata and urban/ rural areas in Cameroon. A composite poverty indicator is constructed using multiple correspondence analysis by taking into account 33 non-monetary indicators that have been identified as describing a real poverty situation. The composite poverty indicator is combined with per capita consumption to estimate poverty measures showing that income poverty affects 39.6% of households, whereas 80.6% of households are poor in the non-monetary dimension. The incidence of multidimensional poverty is estimated to be at 81.3%. Decomposition of the Chakravarty indexes fails to establish robust regional poverty orderings and comparisons. By resorting to the stochastic dominance approach we find that bi-dimensional poverty for urban areas is robustly lower than that for rural areas. Between regions, there is clear evidence that bi-dimensional poverty in Yaounde/ Douala is less than other regions and that the Rural Savannah is the poorest region of the country for a wide range of poverty lines and a broad class of poverty measures. The discriminatory measures of variables reveal that water, sanitation, housing materials, levelof education and roads are the major indicators of non-monetary poverty in Cameroon. Policy should therefore, in addition to promoting income-generating activities, focus on these variables and target the rural areas as well as the northern regions to better alleviate poverty in Cameroon. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AERC | en_US |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9966-778-68-3 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/123456789/229 | |
| dc.publisher | AERC | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ;RESEARCH PAPER 198 | |
| dc.subject | Poverty - cameroon - Econometric Models | en_US |
| dc.subject | Poor - Cameroon- Econometric Models | en_US |
| dc.subject | Income distribution - Cameroon - Econometric Models | en_US |
| dc.title | Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Cameroon | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |