The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …

The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … increases. The national poverty headcount decreases marginally as lower consumer prices outweigh the income reduction …

This paper examines the role of multinationals and international business in poverty alleviation, based on an analysis … that maps and disentangles the impact of different types of international business activities on five dimensions of poverty … poverty is still unclear overall, we contribute to research and policy debates by identifying key insights from and main gaps …

The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the poverty effects of tariff reduction. The … results indicate that the tariff cuts implemented between 1994 and 2000 were generally poverty-reducing, primarily through the … (NCR), where poverty incidence is already lowest, than in other areas, especially rural, where poverty incidence is highest …

This paper examined welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Bangladesh. By using a computable general … regressive pattern is observed amont the urban households but it is ambiguous for the rural households. Rural poverty declined …. Except for the second simulation, the urban poverty headcount, gap and severity all worsen in other two simulations. This …

-wide CGE model is used to run a series of policy experiments. Poverty is found to increase slightly with the implementation of …. If an indirect tax is used, the incidence of poverty falls marginally, but the depth (poverty gap) and severity (squared … poverty gap) increase substantially. If, instead, an income tax is used, all measures of poverty increase. In both cases, full …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade reform on welfare and poverty in the Philippines in the 1990s using a CGE model …. The results indicate that while welfare rises and poverty falls for all household groups except the poorest (those with … reduction in poverty in the latter. Since poverty remains high and the disparity between rural and urban poverty is still wide …

analyze the impacts of Tariffs and Non-tariff Barriers (NTBs) on the welfare and poverty of socio-economic household groups. A … general cut in tariffs leads to a decrease in overall welfare and reduction in poverty, which urban households are in a … does not substantially change the pattern of impact except that it increases overall poverty in the economy. On the other …

The aim of this chapter is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon …. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index … model which involves 10,992 households in order to address this question. The Doha Round is found to be poverty reducing for …