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Record Nr.

UNINA9910297054003321

Autore

Kumase Wokia-azi Ndangle

Titolo

Aspects of poverty and inequality in Cameroon / / Wokia-azi Ndangle Kumase

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2018

Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2010]

Frankfurt am Main, Germany : , : Peter Lang, , [2018]

©2010

ISBN

9783631753514

9783631595350

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 153 pages) : illustrations, charts; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics ; ; Band 28

Soggetti

Poverty - Cameroon

Equality - Cameroon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as the author’s doctoral thesis: Gottingen, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

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.