Female Inclusion and Economic Development: The Case of Cameroon

Authors : Ahmet Sedat AYBAR, Michele Patricia POUGNI SIATOU

Pages : 31-52

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Publication Date : 2018-10-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The present paper aims at investigating the status of the economic development in Cameroon and female inclusion problems with the use of annual data on Gross Domestic Product insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(GDP); and assets of household survey between 2007-2011 and 2012-2016 from National Institute of Statistic of Cameroon and, the different education statistical data available on UNESCO and World Development Indicator of 2016. Our investigation particularly aims to uncover the level of women inclusion in Cameroon while putting a special focus on education. The paper finds that due to a global amelioration in female inclusion effort, Cameroon has also improved its condition. It can be concluded that growth in Cameroon has not been as inclusive because as growth advanced equity did not. Hence, despite positive developments, women inclusion still faces many problems in Cameroon which can be confirmed by their very low representation in important function of the country. In addition, the number of girls having a chance for proper education is low in Cameroon. Furthermore, we move forward in education and we observe that lesser percentages of females are presented in each category of education: pre-primary, primary and secondary.
Keywords : Cameroon, inclusive growth, female inclusion, education, income distribution, income per capita

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