  |
|
Varying research carried out by students and staff of the department, and also in collaboration with external partners and associates.
RESEARCH TITLES 1. Fiscal Policy and Regional Development 1. The Revenues and Expenditures of the Cameroon Government: Modalities and Consequences. 2. Fiscal Policy, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Cameroon. 3. The HIPC Debt Relief Initiative: Cameroon's Social Sector Reforms and Outcomes. 4. Fiscal Policy and Private Investment in Cameroon. 5. Cameroon Income Taxation: Policy and Practice. 6. Corporate Tax Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment in Cameroon. 7. Tax Competition and Globalization: A Challenge for Cameroon. 8. Examining the Trend and Sources of Growth in Cameroon's Economy. 9. How Inadequate Provision of Public Infrastructure and Services Affects Private Investment in Cameroon. 10. Does the HIPC Initiative Achieve its Goal of Debt Sustainability? How Much Poverty in Cameroon Could HIPC Reduce? 2. Money, Finance and Growth 1. Financial Policies and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from Cameroon. 2. Prudential Regulation of Banks in Less Developed Economies: The Cameroonian Experience. 3. Financial Liberalisation and Bank Restructuring in Cameroon: Some Lessons for Sequencing and Policy Design. 4. Money Demand and Economic Stabilisation in Cameroon. 5. Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate in CFA Zone of the CEMAC Sub-region. 6. Interest, Credit and Liquid Assets in Cameroon. 7. Household Financial Savings Mobilisation: Empirical Evidence from Cameroon. 8. Micro-macro Linkages in Financial Markets in Cameroon. 9. Fighting poverty through the Provision of Microfinance: Evidence from Cameroon. 10. Sources of Economic Growth and Inequality in Cameroon. 3. Trade Policy, Foreign Investment and Industrialisation 1. Openness, Investment and Growth in Cameroon. 2. The Role of Trade and Non-trade Policy Factors in Promoting Exports and Reducing Poverty in Cameroon. 3. Trade Policy and Regional Integration in the Development Context: Emerging Patterns, Issues and Lessons for CEMAC Countries. 4. CEMAC and ECOWAS: Trade, Investment, Integration and the Future. 5. Industrial Policy and Industrialisation in Cameroon. 6. Business Environment and Investment in Cameroon: An Overview. 7. Export Performance and Cameroon's Manufacturing: Evidence from Firm-level Data. 8. Determinants of Local Manufacturing Investment in Cameroon: The Microeconomic Evidence. 9. Foreign Direct Investment in Cameroon: Determinants, Characteristics and Implications for Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation. 10. Learning to Export: Evidence from Cameroon Manufacturing. 11. Agricultural Trade between Cameroon and its Neigbours: Patterns and Future Possibilities. 4. Agriculture and Rural Development 1. Effects of Agricultural Market Policy on Crop Production in Cameroon. 2. The Impact of Prices and Macroeconomic Policies on Agricultural Supply in Cameroon. 3. Agricultural Market Liberalisation, Private Trade and Incomes: Implications for Poverty Reduction in Rural Cameroon. 4. International Commodity Prices, Macroeconomic Performance and Development in Cameroon. 5. Supply Response of Cocoa in Cameroon: A Farm-level Profit Function analysis. 6. Trade and Agroindustrialization in Cameroon: Trends and Policy Impacts. 7. Land Lease Markets and Agricultural Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from Cameroon. 8. An Economic Model of the Cameroon Farm Household. 9. The Effects of Education on Farmer Productivity in Rural Cameroon. 10. A Review of The organization of agricultural research in Cameroon. 11. The Impact of Perception and other Factors on the Adoption of Agricultural Technology in Cameroon. 12. Income Diversification, Poverty Traps and Policy Shocks in Cameroon. 13. Nonfarm Income Diversification and Household Livelihood Strategies in Rural Cameroon: Concepts, Dynamics, and Policy Implications. 14. Analysis of Food Consumption Behavior by Cameroon Household. 15. The Effects of Trade and Exchange Rate Policies on Production Incentives in Cameroon Agriculture. 16. Access by Farm households to Credit from Formal Sources: The Case of Cameroon. 17. An Analysis of the Productivity and Technical Efficiency of Food Crop Farmers in Cameroon. 18. A General Equilibrium Analysis of Export Crop Market Trade Liberalization in Cameroon. 5. Environment, Natural Resources and Tourism 1. Cameroon's Forestry and its Forestry Policies: A Review. 2. Demand-side Policies for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Usage of Renewable Resources in Cameroon. 3. Policy Tools to Encourage the Application of Sustainable Timber Harvesting Practices in Cameroon. 4. Environmental Policies for Agricultural Pollution Control in Cameroon. 5. Natural Resource Valuation and Policy in Cameroon. 6. Analysis of Climate Variability in Cameroon: Assessing the Socioeconomic Implications. 7. Consequences of Climate Change for Cameroon's Agricultural productivity, Land use and Policy. 8. Tourism Policy and Performance: The Cameroon Experience. 9. Tourism and Welfare in Cameroon: A Theoretical Analysis. 10.The Tourism Dimension to Cameroon's Economic Development. 11. Tourism Collaboration and Partnerships: Policies, Practice and Sustainability. 12. The Future of Cameroon Tourism - A Matter of Innovation. 13. Institutional and Environmental Constraints to Agricultural Intensification in Cameroon. 6. Health Policy, Social Capital and Gender Issues in Development 1. Government Expenditure on Health and Standing of Living of Female-Headed Households. 2. Gender and Education as Determinants of Household Poverty in Cameroon. 3. A Review of the Gender Aspects of Urban Economic Growth and Development. 4. Poverty and fertility dynamics in Cameroon: a micro evidence. 5. Risk-Sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness in Cameroon. 6. The Impact of Malaria on Farm Output and Farm Inputs in Cameroon. 7. Social Capital, Household Welfare and Poverty in Cameroon. 8 Household Consumption Decisions and Nutrition in Cameroon. 9. Education, incomes and poverty in Cameroon. 10 Social Policy, Social capital and Development Outcomes in Cameroon. 11. Regional Dimensions of Poverty in Cameroon: Is spatial inequality increasing?. 12.Welfare in Villages and Towns in Cameroon: Micro-level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality. 13. Gender Equality and Investments in Adolescents in Cameroon. 14. Women: The Key to Food Security in Cameroon. 7. Microeconomics of Production, consumption and welfare 1. Firm Size and Human Capital as Determinants of Productivity and Earnings in Cameroon. 2. Education, Incomes, Poverty and Inequality in Cameroon. 3. The Road to Cameroon's Economic Recovery: The Role of Farms, Firms and Government. 4. Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development in Cameroon: 1960-2003. 5. Domestic competition and Export Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Cameroon. 6. Income Risk, Coping Strategies and Safety Nets in Cameroon. 7. The Investment Response to Temporary Commodity Price Shocks. 8. Risk Sharing Networks Among Households in Rural Cameroon. 9. Exports and Firm-level Efficiency in Cameroon Manufacturing. 10. Does Internet Connectivity Affect Productivity and Export Performance in Cameroon? 8. Labour, Wages and Price Policy 1. Wage Policy and Labor Organisation in Cameroon. 2. Inflation and Macroeconomic In/stability in Cameroon. 3. Real Wages and Returns to Education in Manufacturing in Cameroon. 4. Foreign ownership and wages in Cameroon. 5. The Wage Gap between Men and Women in Cameroon's Formal Labour Market. 6. The Determinants of Food Prices in Cameroon. 7. Retail Margins, Price Transmission and Price Asymmetry in Urban Food Markets in Cameroon. 8. Basic Commodity Prices and Living Standards in Cameroon. 9. Contemporary Challenges Facing Cameroon Businesses in a Globalising Economy. 10. Child Labour in Rural Cameroon: Income constraints or Income opportunities. 9. Governance, Property Rights and Regulation 1. The Quality of Governance: 'Second-generation' Civil Service Reforms in Cameroon. 2. Institutions, Governance and the Political Economy of Cameroon's Development. 3. The Evolution of Property Rights and Economic Implications in Cameroon. 4. Government as Definer of Property Rights: Household and Firm-level Production Issues. 5. Control and Ownership of Assets within Households in Rural Cameroon. 6. Contract Flexibility and Dispute Resolution in Cameroon Business World. 7. The Impact of Property Rights on Households’ Investment, Risk Coping, and Policy Preferences: Evidence from Cameroon. 8. A General Equilibrium Analysis of Ownership, Property Rights and Control in a Developing Economy: The Case of Cameroon. 9. Natural Resource Management: The Role of Property Rights and Collective Action in Cameroon. 10. Property Rights, Risk, and Agricultural Development in Cameroon. 10. Informal Economy, Black Market, Fraud and Corruption 1. Informal Trade and Subterranean Economy in Cameroon: An Overview. 2. Income-sharing Within Extended Families and Consumption Smoothing: Informal Insurance Mechanisms in Cameroon. 3. Employment, Productivity and the Informal Sector in Cameroon: 1960 - 2000: An input-output analysis. 4. The Informal Sector, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in Cameroon. 5. Shifting Tax burdens through Exemptions and Evasion: An Empirical Investigation of Cameroon. 6. Self-help Groups and Income Generation in Cameroon. 7. Informal Insurance, Public Transfers and Consumption Smoothing in Cameroon. 8. Beauty and the Beast: Explaining the Leakage of Public Funds in Cameroon. 9. Corruption as a Threat to the Reform of Public Institutions and Corporate Behaviour in Cameroon. 10. Trends in Economic and Asylum Migration to Industrialised Countries from Cameroon: 1960-2003. 11. Impact Analysis of Migrant Remittance and Household Welfare in Cameroon. 11. Econometrics, Mathematical Modelling and Forecasting 1. Modelling and Explaining Cameroon's Economic Performance: An Economteric Approach. 2. Modelling Inter-sectoral Growth linkages: An application to Cameroon's agriculture. 3. Bioeconomic Modelling of the Production and Export of Cocoa for Price Policy Analysis in Cameroon. 4. Modelling and Forecasting Food Demand in Cameroon under Alternative Pricing Policies. 5. Modelling and Forecasting the Environmental and Socioeconomic Consequences of Changes in Cameroon's Agricultural Policy.  
|