Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon

Abstract

The chapter analyses the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and uses this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis of poverty and inequality takes data from three comparable and nationally representative Cameroonian household surveys that were conducted in 1996, 2001, and 2007 respectively; these are complemented by an analysis of the four demographic health surveys conducted in 1991, 1998, 2004, and 2011. This analysis puts more emphasis on spatial differences. Some policy recommendations are given, generally focusing on the need for stronger and sustainable economic growth and for greater policy attention to be paid to poverty reduction, especially in disadvantaged regions of the country.

A Fast Third-Step Second-Order Explicit Numerical Approach To Investigating and Forecasting The Dynamic of Corruption And Poverty In Cameroon

“…In addition, the results provided in the subperiod [2002,2022] shows that 38.1% of people have expenditures below the poverty line and more than 29.4% of persons working in public sector are still interested in corrupt practices. These numerical results confirm a large class of studies carried out in the literature on the considered country [17,44,49,51,18,52,50,16]. Indeed, the worst situation observed in the subperiod [1986,2002[ is partly due to the fact that, after the devaluation of the currency (F CFA) in 1990, the economy witnessed a serious economic crisis and the poverty rate grew.…”

“…Furthermore, we focus on the particular case of the dynamic of poverty and corruption in Cameroon, where some data are taken in [44,8,49,51,50,21,16,17]. In these works, the authors conducted the analysis on poverty and corruption from its independence in 1960 to date.…”

“…Thus, a large class of individuals live in extreme poverty. For more details about extreme poverty and corruption in Cameroon, we refer the readers to [16,21,17]. For some years now, a majority of cameroonians have shown very little interest in studying and serving in the country.…”

Ambiguity in NGOs Poverty Reduction Programmes

“…Major activities carried out by PI in these regions to reduce poverty include health, learning, habitation, livelihood, and building relations [12] Researchers such as Eyong (2003), Mbwoge (2014), Balgah, Azibo, Vubo, Mbue, Kimengs (2015. Fambon, McKay, Timnou, Kouakep, Dzossa, & Ngoho, (2016), have studied NGOs and poverty reduction in Cameroon but lliterature review in French, English and other languages suggests there are no studies in the North West Region and Baka community in Cameroon to assess why NGOs in these regions continue to participate in poverty reduction programmes when their programmes are not reducing the level of poverty. To achieve the aim of the study, the following sub-objectives were projected (1) Exploring how NGO staff and their beneficiaries perceive poverty.…”