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Simulating the poverty impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522412
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The poverty and distributional impact of macroeconomic shocks and policies : a review of modeling approaches
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2005
"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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522518
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A unified framework for pro-poor growth analysis
Essama-Nssah, Boniface - 2004
aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522937
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Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market
Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293663
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Why Do Trade Negotiations Take So Long?
Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083302
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An Estimate of the Effect of Currency Unions on Trade and Output
Frankel, Jeffrey A; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
second stage suggest that every one percent increase in trade (relative to GDP) raises income per capita by roughly 1/3 of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789088