The Nexus between Poverty, Inequality and Growth, a Case Study of Cameroon and Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorEpo, Boniface Ngah
dc.contributor.authorBaye, Francis Menjo
dc.contributor.authorMwabu, Germano
dc.contributor.authorEtyang, Martin N.
dc.contributor.authorGachanja, Paul M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T13:08:37Z
dc.date.available2023-05-25T13:08:37Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractWe conduct an in-depth analysis of the nexus between inequality of opportunity and inclusive growth in Cameroon and Kenya employing cross-sectional data collected over two time periods in each country. Empirical results show that changes in education, health and labour market endowments have large effects on household economic well-being, as proxied by total expenditures per adult equivalent. Employing the regression-based decomposition, we find that effort-based variables are associated with greater Gini inequality compared with circumstance-based variables—more so for Cameroon than Kenya. Among the effort-based variables, education in Cameroon and health in Kenya, are the main correlates of income inequality. The factual and counterfactual distribution analyses undertaken demonstrate that equalisation of human capital endowments is strongly inequality-reducing and further promotes pro-poor growth. Meanwhile, elimination of circumstance disparities in Cameroon reduces Gini inequality, enhances pro-poorness of the growth process, promotes shared-prosperity in urban areas and reduces inequality between the tails of the distribution of well-being. In Kenya, elimination of circumstance-based disparities is pro-poor improving, shared prosperity enhancing, but Gini inequality augmenting. In contrast to the Cameroonian case, equalisation of circumstances increases inequality between the tails of the distribution of well-being. The mechanisms behind these findings are probably the country-specific redistributive policies.en_US
dc.identifier.citationEpo, B. N., Baye, F. M., Mwabu, G., Etyang, M. N., & Gachanja, P. M. (2023). The Nexus between Poverty, Inequality and Growth: A Case Study of Cameroon and Kenya. Journal of African Economies, 32(Supplement_2), ii113-ii146.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejac045
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/25429
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherOxford Academicen_US
dc.subjectKenyaen_US
dc.subjectCameroonen_US
dc.subjectfactual-counterfactual distributionsen_US
dc.subjecteffortsen_US
dc.subjectcircumstancesen_US
dc.subjectequality of opportunityen_US
dc.subjectinclusive growthen_US
dc.subjectinequalityen_US
dc.subjectpovertyen_US
dc.titleThe Nexus between Poverty, Inequality and Growth, a Case Study of Cameroon and Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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