The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a … complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty Assessment Study … of poverty. The complete removal of tariffs favours exporting sectors. Poverty falls in the economy while inequality …

The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of trade … liberalisation in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS). The … as opposed to having representative households, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of poverty. The complete removal of …

A CGE microsimulation model is used to study the poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Zimbabwe. A sample of 14006 … consumer prices fall and this, together with increased unskilled wages, leads to a fall in poverty. The fall in the price of …, explains why poverty falls more here than in rural Zimbabwe …

The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of trade … liberalisation in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from the 1995 Poverty Assessment Study Survey (PASS). The … as opposed to having representative households, allowing for a comprehensive analysis of poverty. The complete removal of …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … poverty effects of policy shocks can be very large.This paper - a product of the Global Knowledge and Learning Division, World … Bank Institute - is part of a larger effort in the institute to evaluate poverty and the distributional effects of poverty …

This paper focuses on approaches to linking macroeconomic models to household income data for poverty and … distributional analysis. Given that linkage methods can influence the resulting poverty and income distribution effects …

equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation model to study the effects of changes in foreign savings and import prices faced by … owners, while poverty and inequality increase. …

sector CGE model with a detailed microsimulation model to study the effects of changes in foreign savings and import prices … to farm owners increase showing a change in favor of agricultural asset owners. Poverty and inequality increase. …

-wide 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 …

The aim of this chapter 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 … redistribution. Will the current trade negotiations under the Doha Round reinforce or curb this trend? We apply a CGE microsimulation …