Editing Yaoundé (section)

==Economy==
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Most of Yaoundé's economy is centred on the administrative structure of the civil service and the diplomatic services. Owing to these high-profile central structures, Yaoundé has a higher [[standard of living]] and security than the rest of Cameroon.

Major industries in Yaoundé include [[tobacco]], [[dairy]] products, beer, [[clay]], [[glass]] goods and [[timber]]. It is also a regional distribution centre for [[coffee]], [[Cocoa bean|cocoa]], [[copra]], [[sugar cane]] and [[rubber]].

Local residents engage in urban agriculture. The city is estimated to have "50,000 pigs and over a million chickens."<ref name=tamingwaters>{{cite web |title=Cameroon: Taming Waters for Health, Jobs in Yaounde |work=[[AllAfrica]] |access-date=January 8, 2015 |date=December 1, 2014 |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/201412012479.html}}</ref>

In 2010, under Mayor Jean Claude Adjessa Melingui, Yaoundé began a flood reduction project, the Yaoundé City Sanitation Master Plan, to deal with "severe floods [that] disrupted the city 15 to 20 times a year, affecting as many as 100,000 people at a time." After four years, the frequency of flooding had been reduced from fifteen to three times a year, and cases of water-borne diseases such as [[typhoid]] and [[malaria]] were reduced by almost half. Although Melingui died in 2013, local officials are continuing his efforts to transform the city. Ongoing improvements to sanitation infrastructure are being carried out under a "$152 million plan, largely financed by loans, primarily from the [[African Development Bank]] and the [[French Development Agency]]", slated for completion in 2017.<ref name=tamingwaters/>

Despite the security issues and humanitarian crises that have plagued the central African nation, its economy remains stable. In fact, there is diversification of its productive economic activities, with the services sector contributing about half of the total domestic production.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://heritage.org/index/country/cameroon |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115142350/http://www.heritage.org/index/country/Cameroon |url-status=unfit |archive-date=January 15, 2009 |title=2016 Index of Economic Freedom |website=Heritage |access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref> However, like many African countries, Cameroon has long suffered from corruption, which dominates almost all the sectors, particularly in the capital city. Oil, gas and mining revenues are rarely reported, which implies massive graft.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corruption in Cameroon.|journal=Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1999.}}</ref> In addition, there is weak protection of real and intellectual property, and the judicial system is vulnerable to political manipulation.

According to Yaoundé City Council data, over 130 floods struck the city between 1980 and 2014, causing massive loss of life and economic damage. However, there has been a reduction of flooding in the city since the establishment of a sanitation master plan to address the issue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unisdr.org/archive/45366 |title=Cameroon's Cities Tackle Flood Risk |last=Nfor |first=Monde Kingsley |website=United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction |date=7 August 2015 |access-date=4 November 2016}}</ref> Another measure was to relocate people living along the drainage routes and in low-lying flood zones.