Growth, Redistribution and Poverty Changes in Cameroon: A Shapley Decomposition Analysis

The Implications of Poverty on the Cameroon Economic Emergence Vision 2035

“…In 2006, this socio-economic condition pushed WB and IMF to admit the country into the category of Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) where the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the1990's level of extreme poverty by December 2015 was unlikely to be met. To sum up, the efforts deployed by GoC to redress the economic state of the country through a series of policy measures produced adverse effects, ranging from the retrenchment of workers, freezing of staff advancement, downward review of civil servants' salaries and government's withdrawal from the social sector of the economy (Baye, 2004) to an embargo on recruitment into public service. These awful upshots bear direct link to the fact that most of the programs and projects designed to eradicate poverty in the country failed due to poor implementation or misplacement of priorities by targeting the wrong population.…”

“…In 1996, GoC increased its spending on the provision of social services to 20.6 million Franc de la Communauté Financiè re de l'Afrique (FCFA) or $412 thousand (1FCFA equivalent to $0.02 as at 29 October 2015), while in 2001, it earmarked 111.8 million FCFA ($2236 thousand) to eradicate poverty in rural areas (Epo & Baye, 2007). Moreover, GoC launched the Structural Adjustment and Economic Stabilization Program (SAESP) in 1987 to liberalize the exchange rate, prices, and trade and restructure or liquidate some public enterprises with the view to contain the crisis and revive the economy without borrowing or seeking assistance from foreign financial bodies (Baye, 2004). Also, it attempted to empower women through (PREPAFEN) program between 1999 and 2009 by conceding 900 million FCFA or $18 million in the then Extrê me-Nord (EN) Province, now EN Region (African Development Bank [AfDB], 2011).…”

La Contribution de la Qualité dans l’Education Pour Tous En Afrique Subsaharienne: Une analyse basée sur l’approche Shapley-Owen-Shorrocks

“…Comme on l'a relevé ci-dessus, la littérature a déjà enregistré des applications sur des indices à deux facteurs (m = 2), généralement aisées (Baye 2004;Chantreuil et Trannoy 1997;Kabore 2002;Saha 2005). Peu d'études ont appliqué cette approche sur des indices de plus de deux facteurs à l'instar de Chameni et Miamo (2012:151) dans le cas des inégalités au Cameroun.…”

Measuring Income Polarization for Twenty European Countries, 2004–13: A Shapley Growth-Redistribution Decomposition

“…Therefore, the Shapley decomposition allows overcoming the path dependency problem: the contribution of each factor (except when there are only two income sources) clearly depends on their order in the elimination process. Shapley decomposition has been discussed by many scholars but mainly in the fields of poverty and inequality (Baye, 2006;Shorrocks, 2013). Instead, decomposition of income polarization receives little attention in the existing literature.…”