"The authors aim to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the … recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty, with the headcount index falling from 53 …) microsimulation model that involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The authors find the Doha Round to be poverty …

marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is … detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty … mechanism the government adopts to offset forgone tariff revenue. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls …

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … for a sample of 15 countries, and ten stand-alone national case studies, all point to larger reductions in poverty …