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Climate Change, Agricultural Production and Food Security: Evidence from Yemen

Breisinger, Clemens; Ecker, Olivier; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

This paper provides a model-based assessment of local and global climate change impacts for the case of Yemen, focusing on agricultural production, household incomes and food security. Global climate change is mainly transmitted through rising world food prices. Our simulation results suggest...

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The social impact of structural adjustment in Bolivia

Thiele, Rainer - 2001

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the …

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Constructing a social accounting matrix with a distributional focus: the case of Bolivia

Thiele, Rainer; Piazolo, Daniel - 2002

This paper describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bolivia for the year 1997. Three …

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Pro-poor growth in Bolivia: accounting for external shocks and policy reforms

Lay, Jann; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2004

Bolivia's medium-term development prospects, leading to marked increases in both urban and rural poverty. If the reform …This paper analyzes how major external shocks and policy reforms affect Bolivia's ability to achieve pro-poor growth … effect of the shocks and two major reform projects (development of the gas sector and deregulation of the urban labor market …

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Resource booms, inequality, and poverty: The case of gas in Bolivia

Lay, Jann; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2006

This paper addresses the question of whether the Bolivian gas boom of the 1990s has bypassed large parts of the poor population, thereby leading to increasing inequalities in an already unequal society. Using a Computable General Equilibrium model that is sequentially linked to a microsimulation...

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Exchange rate policy in a dollarized economy: A CGE analysis for Bolivia

Schweickert, Rainer; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2005

In this paper, a real-financial CGE model is employed for Bolivia to simulate the macroeconomic and distributional … by the shock. Financial de-dollarization tends to be contractionary in Bolivia but different degrees of financial …

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