-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 …

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 …

Conventionally, the analysis of macro-economic shocks and the analysis of income distribution and poverty require very … approaches has diminished, as evaluating the impact of macro-economic shocks on poverty and income distribution within a CGE …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of trade reform on welfare and poverty in the Philippines in the 1990s using a CGE model …. The results indicate that while welfare rises and poverty falls for all household groups except the poorest (those with … reduction in poverty in the latter. Since poverty remains high and the disparity between rural and urban poverty is still wide …