This study aimed at analyzing the benefits derived from the use of public healthcare facilities and education in Cameroon. The specific objectives are: (i) to estimate the proportion of the budget which is really acquired by the end users of those services; (ii) to determine the equity contents...

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during...

It is argued that without collateral the poor often face binding borrowing constraints in the formal credit market. This justifies a micro-credit program, which is operated by the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies to provide the poor with preferential credit. This paper examines poverty targeting...

The general objective of this study is, on one hand, to identify and analyse the factors that contribute to child poverty and, other hand, to identify the existence of child welfare inequality and then analyse their sources in four WAEMU countries like: Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Niger and...

In order to carry out an analysis of transition in poverty, as well as the determining factors of entry to and exit out of poverty in the urban areas of Benin, this study uses the panel data of 836 households which were constituted based on the official surveys on households living conditions...

Using a stochastic dominance approach, we analyze poverty dynamics in Burkina Faso under the three structural adjustment plans (SAP) between 1994 and 1998. The policies implemented during the three SAP led to a transfer of resources towards the rural poor and vulnerable populations, but were not...

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during...

Based on a composite poverty indicator, the analysis of the level and evolution of multidimensional poverty in Togo between 1988 and 1998 reveals a downward trend using both relative and absolute poverty lines. Over the two periods studied, non-monetary poverty strongly increased in the rural...

Using annual urban household survey data from 6 provinces in different regions of China, we analyze the rapid increase in earning inequality of urban China from 1988 to 2003. We describe overall and residual inequality trends and use quantile regression to address the relationship between...

We measure the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program in Peru. Using the credit with education model, we assigned clients randomly to either treatment or control groups. Treatment groups received thirty to sixty minute...