1003157.pdf

1003157.pdf

Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine d...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-268862024-03-23T11:30:10Z Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks Lay, Jann America Approaches Armut Case Combining Distributional Economic External from Impact Income distribution Inzidenz (Wirtschaft) Kolumbien Latin Macro Macro-micro model Micro Microsimulation Policies Poverty Resource boom Shocks Studies Three Trade policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCA Economic theory and philosophy thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCF Labour / income economics thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and distributional impact of policy changes and external shocks in three case studies from Latin America: Trade liberalization in Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models. The country applications illustrate that distributional consequences depend very much on the nature of the shock or policy change as well as the characteristics of the country in question. The book issues a warning against policy prescriptions being based on oversimplifying assumptions and models. 2019-01-10 23:55 2018-12-01 23:55:55 2020-01-14 16:14:21 2020-04-01T11:29:21Z 2020-04-01T11:29:21Z 2018 book 1003157 OCN: 1083018578 9783631753651 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26886 eng Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics application/pdf n/a 1003157.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b13887 10.3726/b13887 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783631753651 18 154 Bern open access
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description Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and distributional impact of policy changes and external shocks in three case studies from Latin America: Trade liberalization in Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models. The country applications illustrate that distributional consequences depend very much on the nature of the shock or policy change as well as the characteristics of the country in question. The book issues a warning against policy prescriptions being based on oversimplifying assumptions and models.
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