regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … of unemployment fell from 26% to 23%. The investment helped lift some of the region¿s poorest out of poverty, reducing …

incomes and poverty globally. Using the global LINKAGE model to generate changes in domestic and international prices that … have a direct impact on factor incomes and consumer prices, we estimate the change in real income at the poverty line that … would accompany various reform scenarios. When accompanied by additional information about the elasticity of poverty with …

computable general equilibrium (CGE) model-as applied to three major trade liberalization agreements adopted during the 1990s … model and "naive" CGE model predictions, we find that the former tends to overpredict intrabloc trade expansion (especially … over horizons of five years and less) while the latter tends to underpredict. CGE models remain favored for ex post …

, thereby helping to reduce poverty. A Doha partial liberalization could take the world some way towards those desirable …

development (DID)-which can boost telework and virtual human capital accumulation. Reduction in poverty and inequality through …, we explore-through a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) and a microsimulation framework-to what extent reforms of … project their impact on poverty and inequality up to 2030. Our findings show limited impact of the three types of policy …

(CGE) model of production and consumption. The Eaton-Kortum model features endogenous trade-induced productivity gains via … in regional science and energy economics. With these features the model goes beyond standard CGE models and provides new …

Studying the poverty and income distribution effects of macroeconomic policies or shocks requires a methodology that … equilibrium (CGE) macro model being used and how the macro and micro components of the methodology are connected together and …/or integrated. It thus starts from a simple framework where the two components are handled separately: the CGE model is static and …

CGE models are widely used for policy evaluation and impact analysis especially with respect to trade reforms, tax …. Nevertheless, many CGE modelers simply adopt the elasticities from the literature. This paper aims at providing estimated … magnitude is only partly comparable to the US elasticities. Moreover, in a small CGE application we are able to show that …