This case study examines the impacts on poverty and equality of the extended trade liberalisation strategy that South Africa has been following since 1994. The paper features an integrated CGE microsimulation model with explicit incorporation of non-market activities and gender decomposition....

Conventionally, the analysis of macro-economic shocks and the analysis of income distribution and poverty require very different methodological techniques and sources of data. Over the last decade however, the natural divide between both approaches has diminished, as evaluating the impact of...

Most empirical studies find relatively small welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization, mainly as a result of the static framework generally used, in which welfare gains and poverty impacts result solely from a short term reallocation of resources. Using Senegal as a case study, we...

Guest editorial special issue on CGE and microsimulation