Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches. - Lay, Jann. (Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2007)
Cover -- 1. General introduction and main findings -- 2. The poverty and distributional impact of "opening-up": Urban Colombia in the early 1990s -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Colombia in the early 1990s: "Apertura" and a non-tradable boom -- 2.3. Capturing the transmission channels: Methodology -- 2.4. The poverty and distributional impact of "Apertura" -- 2.5. Conclusions -- 2.6. Appendices -- 2.6.1. Additional figures -- 2.6.2. Additional tables -- 3. Resource booms, inequality, and poverty: The case of gas in Bolivia -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The gas boom and other resource shocks -- 3.3. The modelling framework -- 3.3.1. The CGE model -- 3.3.2. The microsimulation model -- 3.4. Results -- 3.4.1. Stylized simulations for link variables -- 3.4.2. Gas shock simulations -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- 3.6. Appendices -- 3.6.1. Additional figures -- 3.6.2. Additional tables -- 4. Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil: The impact of the Doha Round -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Background and motivation -- 4.3. The modeling framework -- 4.3.1. The macro model -- 4.3.2. The micro model -- 4.4. Brazil in the next decade: How trade policy affects a Business as Usual scenario? -- 4.4.1. The Business as Usual macro results -- 4.4.2. Distributional and poverty results for the BaU -- 4.4.3. Macro results for the full liberalization and the Doha trade policy shocks -- 4.4.4. Trade scenarios' distributional and poverty results -- 4.5. Conclusions -- 4.6. Appendices -- 4.6.1. Additional tables -- 5. Conclusions, policy relevance, and future research -- 6. References.
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