Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …

liberalization on household welfare and poverty in Nepal through the construction of a regional CGE model. The model disaggregates … incomes such that there are negligible welfare changes. However, poverty falls substantially, with the greatest impact in …

, show that trade liberalization reduces poverty in Senegal, particularly in rural areas. While the fall in the relative …

The aim of this paper 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 …

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 …

We examine the impacts of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare and poverty in … macro effects and micro effects in terms of poverty we use the representative household approach with actual intra … negative implications for the overall macro economy, household welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade deteriorate …

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 …

Much current debate focuses on the role of growth in alleviating poverty. However, the majority of computable general … equilibrium (CGE) models used in poverty and inequality analysis are static in nature. The inability of this kind of model to … account for growth (accumulation) effects makes them inadequate for long run analysis of the poverty and inequality impacts of …

We examine the impacts of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare and poverty in … macro effects and micro effects in terms of poverty we use the representative household approach with actual intra … negative implications for the overall macro economy, household welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. Terms of trade deteriorate …