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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407655
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Regional Trade Agreements
Pomfret, Richard - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews the evolution of thinking about regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the policy developments reflected in three waves of RTAs during the last half century. It rejects claims, based on number of RTAs notified to the WTO, that RTAs are today more prolific than ever. Desirable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556419
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Sensitivity of Tariffs and Quotas: A Signaling Game
Amin, Mohd - EconWPA - 2004
In a model with cost-based informational asymmetry and trade policy determined endogenously, we show that tariffs and import-quotas have different sensitivities to the signal sent by the private agents to the home government. Specifically, the optimal quota is shown to be more sensitive than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062595
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Dynamics and Discriminatory Import Policy
To, Ted - EconWPA - 1996
Although the GATT prohibits discriminatory import tariffs, it includes means for circumventing this prohibition. The previous literature uses static models and discriminatory tariffs increase welfare. In a dynamic model, if governments lack the ability to precommit, this is not necessarily true....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062636
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Imperfect Competition and the Theory of Managed Trade
Amin, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004
We analyze the role of imperfect competition in explaining the relationship between temporary surges in trade-volumes and the level of cooperation in trade policy that can be sustained between countries in a repeated game framework. Imperfectly competitive markets are characterized by a mark-up...
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Endogenous Globalization and Income Divergence
Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - EconWPA - 2005
This paper develops a growth theory that accounts for the evolution of trade policy, underlying internal class conflicts, and global income divergence over the last few centuries. By analyzing political responses to the distributional effects of international trade, this paper finds a prominent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118700
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Foreign Trade Regimes and Import Demand Function: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Emran, M. Shahe; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2001
Time series data for Sri Lanka span periods of pervasive trade and exchange restrictions along with periods of liberalized trade. This paper implements a structural econometric model of aggregate imports which incorporates the implications of the shifts in the policy regime. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556426
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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … 48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line … in the sample households are below poverty line. The mean energy intake of these households is slightly less than 1600 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556217
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Nutritional Aspects of Poverty among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556229
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Estimating Sampling Variance from the Current Population Survey: A Synthetic Design Approach to Correcting Standard Errors
Jolliffe, Dean - EconWPA - 2001
U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), which serves as the basis for official poverty, unemployment, and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556374