The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of the relative cost of children to adults and of economies of scale in the context of the evaluation of household welfare. Results derived with empirically-estimated scales show that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed...

Few studies have reconciled the multidimensional nature of poverty with the cultural conditioning of population to orient policies. A SEM (Structural Equations Modeling) strategy, through the comparison of nested models, was used to formulate and test four research hypotheses. Results show that...

The primary objective of this study is to capture multi-poverty with values for welfare dimensions rather than the typical approach of a composite welfare indicator. The method used is multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) modelling, which can be used to explain, measure and calculate the...

The objective of this study is to measure the empirical effects of inequality of opportunities (IOP) on the distribution of economic wellbeing, which is captured by consumption per adult equivalent of households in Cameroon. To this effect, we apply both the parametric and non-parametric...

The aim of this paper is to analyze multidimensional poverty, inequality and polarization and show how these later reduce non-monetary well-being in Cameroon after the completion point of the HIPC initiative. A composite well-being indicator is built throw the MCA with ECAM3 data to capture...