The abatement of poverty in all its forms requires economic progress. Lack of
education reduces the earning abilities of individuals. This study investigates
the impact of education attainment on poverty in Cameroon in 2007. The study
employed a logistic regression model to investigate the probability of an
individual being poor using gender, work experience and education levels of
education as explanatory variables. The estimated coefficients show that with
the exception of primary education, which has no impact on poverty reduction,
the other variables are negatively related to the probability of being poor. This
indicates that as one’s level of education increases, the probability of being poor
decreases. The study also found that the reduction in the probability of being
poor as educational level increases impacts women more than men.