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Computable General Equilibrium Simulations of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Agreement
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
Building upon earlier work by Willenbockel (2013; MPRA Paper No.51501), this study provides an extended ex-ante computable general equilibrium (CGE) assessment of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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Analyzing Poverty Impact of Trade Liberalization Policies in CGE Models: Theory and Some Policy Experiments in Agricultural and Non-agricultural Sectors in South Asia
Khan, haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
constructed for the purpose of investigating the implications of trade liberalization for poverty reduction in South Asia. The … liberalization on poverty reduction. The model’s general equilibrium results suggest that trade liberalization can complement other … specific policy interventions for poverty reduction. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619929
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Inequality,Poverty and Hunger in Developing Countries: Sustainability Implications
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107392
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Macroeconomic Effects of a Low-Carbon Electricity Transition in Kenya and Ghana : An Exploratory Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Willenbockel, Dirk - 2019
The present study applies purpose-built dynamic computable general equilibrium models for Ghana and Kenya with a disaggregated country-specific representation of the power sector to simulate the prospective medium-run growth and distributional implications associated with a shift towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894601
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A Model of Monetary Equilibrium with Random Output and Restricted Borrowing
Mierzejewski, Fernando - 2010
An alternative theoretical setting is presented to characterise the money demand and the monetary equilibrium. Two main hypotheses are stated that contradict the assumptions normally sustained by scholars and policy-makers: National output is assumed to be a random variable, and people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148534
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Good governance in microcredit strategy for poverty reduction: focus on western Mindanao, Philippines
Moreno, Frede - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401358
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Exploring Environmental Services Incentive Policies for the Philippine Rice Sector: The Case of Intra-Species Agro Biodiversity Conservation
Fuwa, Nobuhiko; Sajise, Asa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
a clear trade-off between the two policy goals of enhancing biodiversity and poverty reduction. Even the totally … untargeted lump-sum subsidy would have a larger poverty reduction impact than would the first-best conservation subsidy payment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534233
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Technological progress with segmented factor markets and welfare implications for the urban poor
Mukherjee, Soumyatanu; Zafar, Sameen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This analysis, in terms of a four-sector static general equilibrium framework, models the urban informal sector for a typical developing economy with labour market distortion in the form of unionised urban sector labour market and capital market segmentation between urban informal and formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108816
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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056555