Background and objectives -- Nepalese trade policy reforms -- Liberalization reforms and poverty : theory and empirics -- The social accounting matrix of Nepal -- Nepal CGE model and calibration : simulations of liberalization and reform policies -- Dynamic Nepal CGE model : higher and pro-poor...

1. Introduction -- 2. Some essentials in economy-wide policy models -- 3. Socio-political regimes and economic development : exploratory models on agrarian reform in India and Chile -- 4. Social economic development goals in economy-wide policy models : an application to Korea -- 5. Growth and...

This paper measures the potential impacts of the devaluation of domestic currency of the small, developing, landlocked and transition South Asian economy of Nepal, which is lagging behind in policy studies. The impacts on growth, distribution, price changes in factor and product markets, and on...

The Netherlands experience with the use of fiscal policy in times of low growth is often quoted as an example of the better performing experiences, also renamed as the ‘Dutch miracle'. This has been generally true for the Netherlands since the 1980's, when compared to other countries. The...