The East African Community member states of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania. Rwanda and Burundi have over the years, established closer economic links through a Free Trade Area, a Customs Union, and a Common Market. These efforts have led to a deeper regional integration and trade within the EAC and...

The global economy must face crucial challenge on how to cope with soaring oil prices, which have been on a precipitous increase in the last years. The high rise has alarmed countries around the world, especially the net oil importers, since continuing oil price hikes tend to lower economic...

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We assess recent Chinese climate policy proposals in a multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model with a Chinese carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS). We conduct a quantitative assessment of the Chinese emissions trading scheme (ETS) with the help of PACE (Policy Analysis...

To model the economics impacts of population ageing in high-income countrie by estimating the scale of required technological change. Presentation of a over-lapping generations computable general equilibrium model. Population ageing is associated with low growth and large welfare losses. The...

This study provides an ex-ante computable general equilibrium assessment of the planned Tripartite Free Trade Agreement between the member states of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the East African Community and the Southern African Development. Community. The analytical...

This work is based on 2 working papers, produced within the NEUJOBS project (www.neujobs.eu). We studied the impact of a number of transport policies in the EU, focussing on the interaction of transport with the labour market. The objective was to determine: - if policies towards promoting...

The Egyptian revolution broke out in January 25, 2011, a revolution that sparked the national movements in the Arab world, and impressed the world as a model of an unprecedented popular peaceful uprising included all the spectrums of Egypt's society. It revolution addressed all forms of...

The degree of substitutability assumed between inputs in production and commodities in consumption is one of the key factors that might affect the range of predicted climate mitigation costs. We explore how and by how much assumptions about elasticities of substitution affect estimates of the...

Electricity users in Kuwait pay a nominal tariff of 2 fills (about USD 0.007) per KWh. Almost all cost of generation, distribution and supply are covered by a very generous government subsidy. The 2 fills/KWh was introduced in 1966 and has been retained at that level since then. On the other...