powerful poverty-reducing tool given their greater importance in the income of the poor. …The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty … macroeconomic effects and microeconomic effects in terms of poverty, the authors use the representative household approach with …

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 …

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 …