In this paper we use a top-down bottom up microsimulation CGE model with endogenous labour supply to explore the impact of scaling up infrastructure in the Philippines. As the debate on the importance of scaling up infrastructure to stimulate growth and provide a push to growth, some analyst...

L’objectif principal de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée (SCA) du Sénégal est d’accroître le rythme de la croissance de l’économie en la rendant profitable aux pauvres. Or dans toute économie, il existe une relation entre la croissance économique, la réduction de la...

Welfare comparisons may be sensitive to the assumptions made about economies of scale within households. This paper uses recent advances in sequential stochastic dominance techniques to show how to test for the robustness of poverty and housing quality comparisons to assumptions about economies...

Although sequential stochastic dominance techniques have been used in the literature to make comparisons of income poverty which are robust to the assumptions made about the economies of scale within households, the techniques could be applied to a much wider set of issues. In this paper, we...