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Assessing the Redistributive Effect of Fiscal Policy

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

Who benefits from public spending? Who bears the burden of taxation? How desirable is the distribution of net benefits from the operation of a tax-benefit system? This paper surveys basic concepts, methods, and modeling approaches commonly used to address these issues in the context of fiscal...

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Trade Effects of Customs Reform

Fernandes, Ana M.; Hillberry, Russell; Mendoza … - 2015

Despite enormous academic interest in international trade costs and keen policy interest in efforts to mitigate them, so far there is very little hard evidence on the impacts of trade facilitation efforts. This paper exploits a dramatic reduction in the rate of physical inspections by Albanian...

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Economy-wide and Distributional Impacts of an Oil Price Shock on the South African Economy

Essama-Nssah, B.; Go, Delfin S.; Kearney, Marna - 2012

consequences of a significant external shock-an increase in the world price of oil-on the South African economy. The authors merge …

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The Poverty and Distributional Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies : A Review of Modeling Approaches

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

The importance of distributional issues in policymaking creates a need for empirical tools to assess the social impact of economic shocks and policies. This paper reviews some of the modeling approaches that are currently in use at the World Bank and other international financial institutions....

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Simulating the Poverty Impact of Macroeconomic Shocks and Policies

Essama-Nssah, B. - 2012

open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and … distributional impacts tend to be significant. The latter drive the political economy of policymaking and point to the need for an … analytical framework that accounts for both the structural richness of the economy and the heterogeneity of the stakeholders …

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Are the Benefits of Export Support Durable? Evidence from Tunisia

Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana M.; Gourdon, Julien - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary firms. While much of the literature assesses only the short-term impact of such programs, the paper considers also the longer-term impact. Propensity-score matching,...

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