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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 … and inequality through time. Changes in poverty are then decomposed into growth and distribution components in order to …

detailed economywide computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to run a series of policy experiments. They find that poverty … mechanism the government adopts to offset forgone tariff revenue. 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 …