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      Publications (22)

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      Framing the change: analysing employment change, (in)adequacy, and (de)feminization in Cameroon's tertiary firms
      Yselle Malah Kuete - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      Cameroon is an example of a developing country where the transition from agriculture to services has defied standard patterns seen in developed countries. While prior research has explored this shift’s impact on economic growth, its effects on women’s representation in the labour market have been...
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      Cameroon's informal labor market
      Ebenezer Lemven Wirba, Fiennasah Annif' Akem, Francis Menjo Baye - Oxford University Press , 2023
      Chapter in book: Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon Cameroon’s informal labor market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky-floor - a wider earnings-gap at the top end of the earnings-distribution and glass-ceiling...
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      Return migration and entrepreneurship in Cameroon
      Sévérin Tamwo, Ghislain Stéphane Gandjon Fankem, Dieudonné Taka - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      In this paper, we examine the determinants of the entrepreneurial behaviour of returnees to Cameroon based on original survey data from 2012. Contrary to the existing literature, we focus on the skills received from abroad without omitting the effect of savings. We distinguish between three types of...
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      Scrutinizing the sticky floor/glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market in Cameroon
      – An unconditional quantile regression analysis
      Ebenezer Lemven Wirba, Fiennasah Annif' Akem, Francis Menjo Baye - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Cameroon’s informal labour market largely harbours female workers, engaged mainly in low-productivity and low-paying jobs. We investigate the sticky floor and glass ceiling phenomena in the informal labour market as a whole and across its segments. We use the 2010 Cameroon labour market survey...
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      Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility?
      – Evidence from Cameroon
      Rose Fontep, Kunal Sen - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      We examine the intergenerational mobility of women relative to men, using paired mother-daughter and father-son data on occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for sons than for daughters. The intergenerational...
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      Informing policy for a brighter future in Cameroon
      – Rose’s Summer School experience
      Eugenie Rose Fontep - UNU-WIDER , 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
      In developing countries in general, and Cameroon in particular, young people struggle to get the quality of education needed for upward social mobility. I started studying intergenerational mobility in the labour market in Cameroon during my Masters studies, and moved my focus area to Sierra Leone...
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      Slow Progress in Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon
      Samuel Fambon, Andy McKay, Joseph-Pierre Timnou, Olive Stéphanie Kouakep, Anaclet Dzossa, Romain Tchakoute - Oxford University Press , 2016 - Oxford, United Kingdom
      From the book: Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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      Modeling Fuel Choice among Households in Northern Cameroon
      Jean Hugues Nlom, Aziz Karimov - Sustainability , 2015 - Basel, Switzerland
      Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
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      Impact of Education on Inequality Across the Wage Distribution Profile in Cameroon, 2005-10
      Francis Menjo Baye - UNU-WIDER , 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education increased monotonically. Yet incremental returns were...
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      The Impact of Food Price Volatility on Consumer Welfare in Cameroon
      Gilles Quentin Kane, Gwladys Laure Mabah Tene, Jean Joël Ambagna, Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, Fondo Sikod - UNU-WIDER , 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
      The objective of this paper is to analyse the welfare effects of food price volatility on Cameroonian consumers. Using data from the third Cameroonian Household Consumption Surveys, the price elasticities are obtained from a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System model. Price elasticities are then...
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      Growth, Poverty, and Inequality
      – The Case Study of Cameroon
      Samuel Fambon, Andy McKay, Joseph-Pierre Timnou, Olive Stéphanie Kouakep, Anaclet Dzossa, Romain Tchakoute - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growth performance of the Cameroonian economy from independence in 1960 to date, and then to use this as a background for the analysis of poverty, inequality, and non-monetary outcomes. The analysis of poverty and inequality uses the microeconomic data...
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      Assessing the Inclusiveness of Growth in Africa
      – Evidence from Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania
      Georges Vivien Houngbonon, Arthur Bauer, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Clara Champagne, Tite Yokossi, Nathalie Ferrière, Hédi Brahimi, Jeanne Avril - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share similar...
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      Modeling Fuel Choice Among Households in Northern Cameroon
      Jean Hugues Nlom, Aziz A. Karimov - UNU-WIDER , 2014 - Helsinki, Finland
      The present study aims to explore economic and socio-demographic factors that influence the household’s probability to switch from firewood to clean fuels in northern Cameroon. The paper employs an ordered probit model to construct cooking patterns and fuel choices. Three main cooking sources are...
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      Foreign Capital Inflow and Economic Growth in Cameroon
      Samuel Fambon - UNU-WIDER , 2013 - Helsinki, Finland
      The purpose of this paper is to capture the impact of foreign capital inflows (which include foreign aid and foreign direct investment) on economic growth in Cameroon. Using the autoregressive distributive lag approach to cointegration and time-series data for the period 1980–2008, the results of...
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      Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration?
      – The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon
      Thomas Cantens - , 2012, 2014
      From the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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      Is it Possible to Reform a Customs Administration?
      – The Role of the Customs Elite on the Reform Process in Cameroon
      Thomas Cantens - UNU-WIDER , 2010 - Helsinki, Finland
      An ethnographic approach is applied to Cameroon customs in order to explore the role and the capacity of the bureaucratic elites to reform their institution. Fighting against corruption has led to the extraction and circulation of legal ‘collective money’ that fuels internal funds. This collective...
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      Changing Land Tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under Globalization
      – A Case Study of Two Villages in Anglophone Cameroon
      Francis Menjo Baye - African Development Review , 2008
      Part of Journal Special Issue Globalization-Poverty Channels and Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
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      Forest Management, Gender, and Food Security of the Rural Poor in Africa
      Daniel Gbetnkom - UNU-WIDER , 2007 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper addresses the economic impact of forest management on gender and food security of rural poor in Africa. The analyses reveal that deforestation places major demands on women and children’s time, limiting their opportunities to obtain an education or undertake income-generating activities...
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      Changing Land-tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under Globalization
      – A Case Study of Two Villages in Anglophone Cameroon
      Francis Menjo Baye - UNU-WIDER , 2007 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper illustrates how, in relation to globalization, formal and informal land institutions are prone to generate conflict over land rights and examines the implications of such conflicts on security levels of access to primary assets for the poor in two villages in Cameroon – Vekovi and Ekona...
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      Taxation in Developing Countries
      – Case Study of Cameroon
      Samuel Fambon - UNU-WIDER , 2006 - Helsinki, Finland
      In the beginning of the 1980s, Cameroon witnessed a sustained rate of growth, associated essentially with the boom in the oil sector. Increased budgetary and extra-budgetary resources generated by this sector helped to raise the investment rate in the economy, and to maintain a reasonable level of...
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      Endettement du Cameroun
      – Problèmes et Solutions
      Samuel Fambon - UNU-WIDER , 2002 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper evaluates Cameroon’s foreign debt situation by analysing its evolution (structure, debt service payment, debt ratio, borrowing conditions, etc.). The analysis is extended by examining the internal debt situation, taking into account its weight in the global endebtness of the county. After...
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      Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing Countries
      Gardner Brown - , 1997, 2000
      From the book: The Environment and Emerging Development Issues
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