The aim of this article is to examine the feminization of multidimensional poverty in Cameroon. We use data obtained from the second and third Cameroon household consumption surveys. Results indicate that between 2001 and 2007 multidimensional poverty was more prominent in urban areas, despite overall incidence of poverty marginally reducing. Over the same period, we witnessed a feminization of poverty overall, with the urban areas experiencing higher rates. Decomposing results indicate that urban areas explain this phenomenon more than rural areas.

This document performs profile analysis of income inequalities in Cameroon, between 1996 and 2001.It concerns origin determination and the components of inequalities in Cameroon. The study is structured around the new subgroup decomposition of the Hirschman-Herfindahl index. The economic and empirical pertinence of this indicator holds on its tridecomposition into three components: the within group's, the between group's net and the between group's transvariation. Inequalities are evaluated by grouping and lead to differents interpretations. The selected data for analysis are from the two Cameroonian Surveys to Households ECAM I and ECAM II. The dependent variable (total expenses per head), the independent variables (sex, place of residence and standard of living) and also the method (simulator H-H) have a particular interest in our work. The analyses results indicate that households present a very strong inequality of expenses on considered period. Heterogeneity is very important between groups while, homogeneity is quite considerable within the different groups. The contribution of the transvariation (or overlapping) to the total inequality revealed itself to be incontestable and varies depending on the dependent variable studied. Households directed by women are more victims of disparities. The Inequality is a characteristic of a semi-urban zone, and it is principally a phenomenon relative to poor households. This reflection calls for measures to fight, which must be focus on between groups inequality and on the subgroups of population the most underprivileged.