Showing 1 - 10 of 235,063
Much current debate focuses on the role of growth in alleviating poverty. However, the majority of computable general … equilibrium (CGE) models used in poverty and inequality analysis are static in nature. The inability of this kind of model to … account for growth (accumulation) effects makes them inadequate for long run analysis of the poverty and inequality impacts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064974
employment, poverty and inequality. To evaluate impacts on poverty and inequality, we use a CGE Top Down approach. The paper … the previous by including semi skilled workers in the simulation. Both of these scenarios show a deep decrease in … unemployment as well as a fall of poverty for each population groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204541
. Except for the second simulation, the urban poverty headcount, gap and severity all worsen in other two simulations. This …This paper examined welfare and poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Bangladesh. By using a computable general … simulation resembles the actual tariff reforms undertaken in the country. This entailed the decline in both the spread and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050736
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050796
The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the poverty effects of tariff reduction. The … results indicate that the tariff cuts implemented between 1994 and 2000 were generally poverty-reducing, primarily through the … (NCR), where poverty incidence is already lowest, than in other areas, especially rural, where poverty incidence is highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064963
rural poverty would decrease no matter whether idle lands or existing agricultural lands are used for jatropha plantation …, although the percentage reductions in rural poverty are higher in the former compared to the latter case. Our results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956358
This paper focuses on the effects that a higher tariff on agriculture and food imports could have on poverty and the … welfare and poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005773219
We study a set of tax reforms introducing a budget-neutral tax shift in Italy, from labour income to consumption taxes. To this end we use a microsimulation model to provide the output with which to estimate the parameters of tax functions in an overlapping-generations computable general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705235
, the poverty effects of these trading arrangements are not yet fully known. This paper, which uses a computable general … instrumental in reducing poverty in the country. It also shows that the relatively poor and less-skilled household groups, like … preferential and multilateral trade liberalization in order to help eradicate poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191286
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063914