Tariffication of quantitative restrictions on rice imports was a key policy reform of the Duterte administration. This study reviews recent trends in the rice market, and assesses the poverty and distributional effects of rice tariffication using a computable general equilibrium model with...

This paper attempts to analyze the fact that is trade liberalization reducing poverty and income inequality in Pakistan using empirical evidence from time series data analysis. The issue of trade liberalization and its effects on the developing economies has become the hotly debated subject in...

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...

Data from the World Bank shows that in the 21st century, over 100 million Africans have become poor and about 43% of the African population is extremely poor. Notwithstanding, African governments have over the years liberalized their economies through a low tariff regime, in addition to external...