TITLE:
Profiles and Trends in Hard Core Poverty in Cameroon
AUTHORS:
Yemedjeu Alexis Tiomela, Nya Yve Daniel Ngassa, Patrick Danel Nya, Toukam Christophe Kuipou
KEYWORDS:
Monetary Poverty, Non-Monetary Poverty, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, Hard Core of Poverty, Cameroon
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.13 No.4,
April
24,
2025
ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to draw up a profile of individuals who suffer from monetary, living conditions, asset and subjective poverty in Cameroon from 2001 to 2014. The identification of the poor according to the monetary dimension was done through the thresholds defined by the National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon. For the other dimensions, we used multiple correspondence analysis to construct Composite Indicators of Well-Being. The poor were identified by calculating multidimensional poverty lines. The data used for this study come from the second, third and fourth Cameroon household surveys. The results show firstly that the incidence of hard core poverty decreases between 2001 and 2007, from 14.7% to 8.1% respectively. But between 2007 and 2014, the incidence rose to 19.6%. Secondly, the incidence of hard core poverty is higher in rural areas than in urban areas. Thirdly, the hard core affects vulnerable groups much more: large households, people who have never been to school, polygamous married people, widows and widowers, people working in the primary sector, the elderly, people working in the informal sector. In view of these results, our main recommendations are to improve the living conditions of rural households.