The improvement of the energy structure and the development of the renewable energy sector play an important and strategic role in Cameroon's responsibilities against climate change. So, the authorities and policy makers have made great efforts to achieve this. But one of the main constraints of...

This study examines the effects of the Islamic mode of financing on the innovation capacity of SMEs in Cameroon using a sample of 1358 SMEs. Results of the multivariate probit model indicate that Islamic finance enhances process innovation, product innovation, and marketing innovation. While the...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine key macroeconomic determinants on Cameroon's economic growth from 1970 to 2018. Design/methodology/approach - Data were obtained from the World Development Indicators and applied on time series data econometric techniques. The auto-regressive...

This report provides a comprehensive evaluation of the institutional and labour relations regimes in six African countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, and South Africa with a special emphasis on promoting decent working conditions for Local and Regional Government (LRG)...

Economic recovery has continued in the face of successive external shocks. While global headwinds are moderating, domestic and regional risks may intensify with persisting security challenges and possible social tensions around Presidential elections expected in late 2025. Completion of the...

Climate change presents substantial risks for Cameroon. In addition to being the largest CEMAC economy with ample economic potential and abundant natural resources, Cameroon covers large areas of the Congo Basin rainforest, the second largest in the world. At the same time, the country is a...

Cameroon's economic recovery has continued against a backdrop of domestic security pressures, increased regional spillover risks, and continuing global economic uncertainties. Inflation remains high although decelerating, and while Cameroon is the largest CEMAC economy with ample economic...

This paper explores the asymmetric and symmetric influence of the human development index (HDI), economic growth, CO2 emissions and inflation on crude oil production (COP) in Cameroon from 1977 to 2019. The Zivot-Andrews and Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests verified stationarity, the ARDL and NARDL...

The present paper performs a techno-economic and an environmental analysis of an islanded energy system based on Geothermal/Biogas/Wind/PV hybrid energy system using two battery technologies for electricity generation in the city of Woulde in Cameroon. The innovation of the present paper is...

Domestic resource mobilization has rightly been placed at the centre of the 'financing for development' agenda across developing countries. While much is known about the importance of domestic taxes in contributing to this agenda, little is known about the potential importance of domestic...

Developments over the past few years, which include the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent polycrisis, conflict in several of Cameroon's regions, and fiscal consolidation, have left Cameroon in an extremely tight fiscal situation. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent polycrisis have had averse...

In Cameroon, major inequalities exist in women's access to antenatal care (ANC), yet underlying circumstance drivers remain understudied. Using recently available Demographic and Health Survey data, we conducted multilevel model and spatial analyses to identify circumstance factors driving ANC...

„L‘Afrique en miniature“ (ganz Afrika im Kleinen) ist eine gängige und sicherlich auch zutreffende Referenz auf Kamerun, reicht das Land doch mit einer Nord-Süd-Ausdehnung von mehr als 1.200 Kilometern von den Ausläufern des Sahel mit einem trockenheißen Steppenklima und...

Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir. appears among the woody species of the Soudano-Guinean to Soudano-Sahelian zones with very high food, medicinal and commercial potential. This Fabaceae still lives in the wild and is overexploited. The objective of this study was to contribute to the domestication of...

This article fills the lack of work on the link between return migration and social cohesion in the country of origin of migration. For the first time, we assess the effect of skills acquired abroad by return migrants on social relations and quality of life in Cameroon using original survey data...

Community currency systems are now turning to digital methods to increase the social outreach of member households in remote areas, mitigate detrimental effects in times of crises, and promote community social cohesion. The resilience of digital community currency systems depends on a set of...

This paper applies a Bayesian approach to incorporate non-data information in estimating the opportunity cost for farmers in rural Cameroon to engage in biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration efforts. Findings from our field survey reveal that only a small percentage of farmers are...

This paper examines the role of corruption in the relationship between natural resources and exports diversifi­ cation 1980-2020) through the bound test of co-integration and the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS). The main findings reveal that, natural resource accentuates export...

This research assesses the effect of capital structure on the sustainability of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Bamenda, Cameroon. We use panel data obtained from audited annual financial statements of fifteen (15) MFIs, comprising both member- and shareholder-owned MFIs in Bamenda, Cameroon...

This research adds to the assessment of the causal relationships between residential electricity consumption and its explanatory factors. Johansen cointegration, autoregressive distributed lag model, the vector error correction model, and Wald causality tests are used. In both the short and long...

The objective of this article is to evaluate the effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon (NIS) in...

Recent and ongoing advancements in the field of ICT have led to the introduction of increasingly diversified financial products, and their use is improving people's level of financial knowledge and skills. This article aims at assessing the effect of Fintech on the level of financial literacy of...

Drought is one of the climatic events that threaten water availability, food security, and local livelihoods in semi-arid areas. Whilst studies have evolved on the impacts of climate change on humanity, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, limited scholarly insight exists on the impacts of specific...

The COVID-19 pandemic posed multifaceted threats to global economies. The lockdowns were exogenous threats to economic activities. This study uses the case of farming households in Cameroon to explore the association between households' resilience and food and nutrition insecurity during the...

Family farms are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of climatic variations and changes. In this regard, this paper assessed the factors that influence family farmers' vulnerability to climate variability and change in the transition zone between forest and savannah in the northern...

Energy management strategies that ensure that energy supply and demand related policies and investment decisions consider all feasible demand- and supply-side options and are consistent with global goals for sustainable development are essential for achieving universal energy access. In this...

The present work demonstrates the techno-economic analysis of an environmentally friendly small-scale PV/Wind/Battery hybrid system for off-grid rural electrification in the city of Mbouda. The major contributions of this work are fourfold: (i) PV/Wind/Battery hybrid system is proposed for the...

This paper examines the impact of the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon on human capital accumulation. Using high-quality individual-level data on test scores and information on conflict-related violent events, a difference-in-differences design is employed to estimate the conflict's causal...

Subsidies are considered to be an effective tool for promoting the adoption of new technologies. Many studies have looked at the impact of subsidies on the adoption of simpler, moreintuitive, and more affordable technologies requiring limited co-investments from prospective adopters. We study...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on poverty, underemployment and inequality in Cameroon. Our methodology is based on documentary research and descriptive analysis using data from the World Bank, the Ministry of Public Health, and the household survey conducted over the...