Decomposition and sources of Gender Inequality in Access to drinking water in Cameroon: Does International remittances matter?

Abstract This paper quantify and decompose the Gender Gap in Access to Drinking Water (ADW) in Cameroon, emphasizing the international remittance impacts. To do this, a nonlinear decomposition technique is applied to the data from a survey of 5930 households led in 2012 by Demographic Research and Training Institute (DRTI) with the collaboration of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific migration organisation. We distinguish the remittances from only male migrants (MIRM) from those all migrants (OIRM). The performing a Boostrap analysis show a significant gender gap in ADW; and that female household heads have greater ADW than their counterpart male ones. Moreover, heterogeneity to remittance recipient widen the gap remittances widen the male-female gap in ADW, but the MIRM impact is largest than OIRM ones. Our finding further confirm the hypothesis stipulating that: adverse distributional effect of remittances depend onof household head and migrant gender. We therefore agree with already existing conclusions in the economic literature. JEL Code: D31, O15, F22 F24 J16