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developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It … finds that liberalization of agriculture will increase global extreme poverty (US …
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This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...
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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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trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper … provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise in exports on poverty and inequality at the local level. The analysis …), but no significant effects on poverty reduction or average household incomes are identified. The lack of impacts on …
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America with still a relatively large agricultural sector and high degrees of rural poverty. In 2005, the country signed a … reference to the agricultural sector and rural poverty. The section that follows describes the main features of the CGE model … and the micro-simulation methodology used to assess the impact on poverty and inequality. The author then lay out the …
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Using the most recent estimates of agricultural price distortions, this chapter studies the economic, poverty, and … and non-agricultural goods, reduces poverty and inequality in Argentina. However, if only agricultural goods are included …, indicators for poverty and inequality do not improve and even deteriorate somewhat. This is particularly the case if export taxes …
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, decreasing the Gini inequality index by 21 percentage points, and the official measure of poverty incidence by 27.6 percentage …
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Deepening real and financial integration of developing countries into the world economy has prompted renewed interest in the contribution of external shocks to their macroeconomic fluctuations. This paper revisits the issue using four decades of annual data for a large sample of developing...
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This paper examines the poverty impacts of global merchandise trade reform by looking at a wide range of developing … countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Overall, the authors find that trade reform tends to reduce poverty primarily … through the inclusion of agricultural components. The majority of developing country sample experiences small poverty …
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2004 on global markets, net farm incomes, and national and regional economic welfare and poverty, using the global economy … wide Linkage model, new estimates of agricultural price distortions for developing countries, and poverty elasticity … owners of other factors of production, thereby potentially contributing to inequality and poverty within developing countries …
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