The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in Tunisia are examined, using a layered dynamic CGE-microsimulation … tests are also used to avoid the arbitrariness of choosing a poverty line and a poverty measure. Simulation results show … household, using a sample from the 1995 household survey, and thus the effects of the simulated changes on poverty. Dominance …

The study tries to answer the following questions: Will exposure to world agricultural prices generate more poverty or … substantial effect in reducing poverty. Moreover, the combined effects of global and domestic liberalization are more pro …-poor than the effect of domestic liberalization alone. As a net importer of agricultural commodities, Tunisia may be expected to …

A CGE microsimulation model is used to study the poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Zimbabwe. A sample of 14006 … consumer prices fall and this, together with increased unskilled wages, leads to a fall in poverty. The fall in the price of …, explains why poverty falls more here than in rural Zimbabwe …

results indicate that poverty declines as a result of this trade liberalization. However, the impacts are weak given that …

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 …

and poverty reduction. For this purpose, multilevel analysis approaches are followed to capture the likely effects of some … public expenditure on growth, inequality, and poverty. One of the most important results of this study is that policies aimed … at enhancing the purchase power of the poor are more effective in reducing poverty than policies aimed to improve human …

strongest growth channel, raising GDP by over three percentage points by the end of our 15 year simulation period. Trade … industries, which is currently male dominated. A linked microsimulation analysis, based on a survey of Senegalese households …, show that trade liberalization reduces poverty in Senegal, particularly in rural areas. While the fall in the relative …

The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in Tunisia are examined, using a layered dynamic CGE-microsimulation … tests are also used to avoid the arbitrariness of choosing a poverty line and a poverty measure. Simulation results show … household, using a sample from the 1995 household survey, and thus the effects of the simulated changes on poverty. Dominance …

The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in Tunisia are examined, using a layered dynamic CGE-microsimulation … tests are also used to avoid the arbitrariness of choosing line and a poverty measure. Simulation results show that trade … household, using a sample from the 1995 household survey, and thus the effects of the simulated changes on poverty. Dominance …

The general perception is that high food prices in India have increased poverty and that trade reforms will further … worsen poverty. We compare Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures for various scenarios of grain price swings with and … opportunities for poverty alleviation. Global trade reform reinforces this effect for all rural population groups. An increase in …