Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches.

• Superior document: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series ; v.18
• Author: Lay, Jann.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2007.; Ã2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (158 pages)

Table of Contents

• 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.