Determinants of Well-being and Poverty Changes in Cameroon: 2001-2007

African Development Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-33

  Epo, Boniface Ngah ^a   Baye, Francis Menjo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ II   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; HETEROGENEITY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LABOR MARKET; POVERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CAMEROON;

EID: 84858031350     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00302.x     Document Type: Article

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