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As preferential trade agreements are growing in number and depth, assessment of their economic impacts has become more important to inform policy-makers facing a multitude of potential preferential trade agreements. This paper provides novel ex ante estimates of the impacts of two key...
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of the recent increase in rice prices on poverty with and without policy responses. Two sets of policy responses are …
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This study uses a computable general equilibrium model to analyze various policy scenarios for a carbon tax on greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum fuels and kerosene in Ethiopia. The carbon tax starts at USD 5 per ton of carbon dioxide in 2018 and rises to USD 30 per ton in 2030. Different...
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Cash transfer programs may generate significant general equilibrium effects that can detract from the anti-poverty …
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to poverty due to natural disasters, especially typhoons. A wind field model for the Philippines is employed to estimate … from the regression model are then used to estimate ex ante household vulnerability to poverty (the likelihood that … household consumption falls below the poverty line) in the event of future natural disasters of different intensities …
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