using survey data to ensure that households’ behaviour is properly captured in the model. Simulation results show that the …

Education is often promoted as the solution to poverty in the developing world. Yet, fiscal discipline has led to … reductions in public spending on education. We examine the poverty impacts of a cut in public subsidies to higher education … a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …

-term growth and poverty reduction. Aid dependence is among the reasons why this effect is not found to be larger. Major …

study reviews recent trends in the rice market, and assesses the poverty and distributional effects of rice tariffication … and palay prices. The price and associated economic adjustments are expected to cause an increase in income poverty as …

This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and … 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each … infrastructures, and the VAT enforcement respectively accounted for two percent, nine percent and -4 percent of poverty alleviation …

liberalization on household welfare and poverty in Nepal through the construction of a regional CGE model. The model disaggregates … incomes such that there are negligible welfare changes. However, poverty falls substantially, with the greatest impact in …

matrix for Vietnam, mapping on a one-to-one basis to each other. Distinct differences in poverty assessments emerge when the … indicate that poverty will rise following a revenue-neutral lowering of trade taxes. This is interpreted as a worst case … response to avoid increasing poverty in the short to medium term …

The Philippines has undertaken substantial trade-policy reforms since the 1980s. However, the poverty impact is not … very clear and has been the subject of intense debate, most crucial of which is the likely poverty effects of liberalizing … the highly protected agricultural sector. A CGE micro-simulation model is employed to estimate and explain these impacts …