A partir d’un modèle dynamique d’équilibre général appliqué au Costa Rica, les auteurs analysent les liens entre l’environnement, le commerce international et la croissance économique. Leur étude envisage les conséquences des politiques commerciales et environnementales sur...

With the aid of a computable general equilibrium model, this paper estimates for India the magnitude of spillovers from limiting growth of greenhouse gas emissions to local air quality and the health of the urban population. The most important spillovers are reductions in emissions of...

L'économie de la République Démocratique du Congo est aujourd'hui bien plus pauvre qu'elle ne l'était à l'indépendance. La désorganisation de l'offre et l'érosion presque continue de la demande l'ont entraînée depuis les années 70 dans une spirale négative, provoquant...

Analyses of responses to reforms in Ghana seem to indicate that current policies may be benefiting different segments of society disproportionately. Also, experience in the 1990s suggests that recurring budget deficits may adversely affect reform and poverty alleviation programmes. The aim of...

Summary of trends on public opinion and international development co-operation in OECD DAC member countries: <I>i)</I> Public support in OECD DAC member countries for helping poor countries has remained consistently high for almost two decades: there is no aid fatigue; <I>ii)</I> Donations from the public to...</i></i>

Assessing the final impact of globalisation on poverty is a difficult task: <I>i) </I> globalisation affects poverty through numerous channels; <I>ii)</I> some linkages are positive and some are negative and therefore cannot be analysed qualitatively but require quantitative assessments, i.e. formal numerical...</i></i>

This technical paper presents the complete technical specification of the current version of the RE-GEM (<I>R</I>egional and <I>E</I>nvironmental <I>G</I>eneral <I>E</I>quilibrium <I>M</I>odel) for India. The document lists all the key structural and behavioural equations, providing a justification for the chosen model...</i></i></i></i></i>

The quest for large numbers has been going on for some time in international trade economics: models of trade liberalisation have consistently produced results that, compared <I>ex post</I> with real world data, show the right sign but the “wrong” magnitudes. This paper proposes a new approach by...</i>

Trade-policy reform is an essential feature of China’s economic transition to a market economy. On the one hand, the liberalisation and decentralisation of export activities has boosted exports. On the other hand, the reform of China’s import regime has been progressing much more slowly....

This paper reports on the construction of an Input-Output table for the economy of Morocco. The table is calibrated to the year 1990 and details the interactions between 133 primary, manufacturing, and service sectors, relying on a combination of a more aggregate table estimated by the Moroccan...