Since the early 1980s, the Philippines have undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha round of WTO negotiations is now likely to bring further reform and shocks to world import and export prices and world export demand. The impact of all these developments on the poor is not very...

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...

This study investigates the role of public infrastructure investment on economic growth and poverty reduction in the Philippines. Using a dynamic general equilibrium-microsimulation model that explicitly models public capital as a production input, we find that the positive supply side effects...

This paper evaluates the efficiency and distributional effects of trade liberalization in the context of fiscal reform in Vietnam. The analysis is performed using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Vietnamese economy calibrated to late- 1990s production and household data. It is...

There is an important debate going on in South Africa on whether to apply safeguard trade barriers to protect textiles. This presents an interesting case of how a country might use safeguard trade barriers in order to better achieve a domestic policy objective. Much of the current discourse on...

This research investigates whether women entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) in Nigeria are marginalised in formal credit markets compared to their male counterparts. The study also investigates the impact of credit access on the performance of enterprises. The study uses...

Ce papier met en évidence le lien entre la forte mobilité des jeunes en République Démocratique du Congo et leur engagement dans l’entrepreneuriat. En effet, malgré la destruction d’infrastructures de transport du fait de la longue période de guerre qu’elle a traversé, la RDC a une...

This study builds Cambodia’s social accounting matrix. Using a CGE-based simulation, it then assesses the impacts of Cambodia’s tariff elimination on household welfare and the labour market. Our results show that tariff elimination leads to an expansion in production output and an increase...

Using the third Chadian survey on consumption and the informal sector (ECOSIT III), this study aims to assess the relationship between education language choice and entrepreneurship in Chad. By education language choice, we mean the choice between education in Arabic and education in French....

Cette étude analyse l’impact de l’expansion des secteurs miniers et pétroliers sur le développement économique et le marché du travail grâce aux politiques d’allocation des ressources générées. Elle utilise un modèle en équilibre général calculable statique fondé sur le...