Economic Growth and Poverty in Cameroon: the role of Employment

Dieu Ne Dort Talla Fokam, Fourier Prevost Fotso Koyeu () and Paul Ningaye

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Abstract: This study investigates empirically the effect of employment in the transmission of economic growth to poverty change in Cameroon. Using data covering the period 1991 to 2017. We estimate two models: the employment intensity of growth model of Kapsos; and the Loayza and Raddatz model, which assesses the impact of sectoral employment intensity of economic growth to the change in poverty. Analyses highlight two main results. First, economic growth positively affects employment and negatively affects poverty rates. Second, the transmission of economic growth through employment is not effective in reducing poverty in Cameroon. These results show that in recent decades, economic growth has propelled the creation of employment in Cameroon. However, these employments, which are mostly precarious, generated by the informal sector, have not significantly reduced poverty.

Keywords: economic growth; poverty; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J21 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02-27
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