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Poverty and malnutrition in Cameroon

African Journal of Economic Policy

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Title Poverty and malnutrition in Cameroon
 
Creator Fambon, Samuel
 
Description Over the past decades, child malnutrition has persisted at high rates in many developing countries including Cameroon. This research attempts to evaluate the levels and characteristics of the malnutrition affecting children in Cameroon by using the anthropometrics data gathered during the 1998 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) in the country. The research also uses the 1998 DHS to highlight the main factors affecting child malnutrition, by estimating a reduced form nutritional status function which includes among others children's characteristics, those of their mothers, and the environment as independent variables. Child malnutrition is expressed in terms of Z-score height-for-age, Z-score weight-for-height, and the Z-score weight-for-age. Some policy implications are derived from the results of the study. African Journal of Economic Policy Vol. 11(2) 2004: 93-134
 
Publisher Department of Economics, University of Ibadan
 
Date 2006-07-12
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/24256
10.4314/ajep.v11i2.24256
 
Source African Journal of Economic Policy; Vol. 11 No. 2 (2004); 93-134
1116-4875
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/24256/20296