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Asset Growth, Asset Distribution and Changes in Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon

African Journal of Economic Policy

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Title Asset Growth, Asset Distribution and Changes in Multidimensional Poverty in Cameroon
 
Creator Njong, AM
Baye, FM
 
Subject Growth
redistribution
fuzzy set theory
Shapley-value decomposition
Cameroon
 
Description This study investigated changes in multidimensional poverty and  accounted for the effects of asset growth and redistribution in Cameroon over the period 1996 to 2001. The study applied the fuzzy set theoretical framework to generate an asset index, and employed the Shapley-value decomposition technique to obtain the sources of variations in the FGT class of multidimensional poverty. The results showed a significant  increase in multidimensional poverty over the period 1996 to 2001.  Variations in multidimensional poverty were attributable more to growth in asset endowments than to their redistribution. The indication was that  growth in household assets was observed to be essential for long-term  poverty reduction but it will be much less effective if such growth took place mainly among the non-poor. Thus, an optimal mix of policies that would encourage asset acquisition, as well as its spatial distribution would be  more effective in terms of poverty reduction.Keywords: Growth, redistribution, fuzzy set theory, Shapley-value decomposition, Cameroon
 
Publisher Department of Economics, University of Ibadan
 
Date 2014-01-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/99944
10.4314/ajep.v17i1.
 
Source African Journal of Economic Policy; Vol. 17 No. 1 (2010); 85-104
1116-4875
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajep/article/view/99944/89205