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Effects of Reducing Inequality in Household Education, Health and Access to Credit on Pro-Poor Growth: Evidence from Cameroon

In: Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting

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  • Boniface Ngah Epo
  • Francis Menjo Baye

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This paper investigates the effect of reducing inequality in household education, health and access to credit on pro-poor growth in Cameroon using the 2001 and 2007 Cameroon household consumption surveys. Results indicate that education and access to credit registered relative pro-poor growth driven by a fall in inequality. However, health failed to record pro-poor growth due to an increase in health-inequality at the bottom of the welfare distribution. In addition, equalizing education, health and access to credit among households, would increase average growth in household spending and pro-poor growth.

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  • Boniface Ngah Epo & Francis Menjo Baye, 2016. "Effects of Reducing Inequality in Household Education, Health and Access to Credit on Pro-Poor Growth: Evidence from Cameroon," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting, volume 24, pages 59-82, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reinzz:s1049-258520160000024004
    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520160000024004
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    1. Doddy Ismunandar Bahari & Hermanto Siregar & Sahara Sahara & Handewi Purwati Saliem Rachman, 2019. "Impact of Agricultural Sectors and Income Inequality in Rural Toward Role of Public Education in Decreasing Educational Inequality in Indonesia," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 9(1), pages 151-159.

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    Keywords

    Pro-poor growth; inequality; poverty and Cameroon; I3;
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    JEL classification:

    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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