Has poverty decreased in Cameroon between 2001 and 2007? An analysis based on multidimensional poverty measures
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Keywords
Multidimensional poverty measurement; Capability approach; counting approach; robustness analysis; Cameroon.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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