Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis

This paper studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both world and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with a special focus on export taxes. Argentina offers an interesting case study as the only large agricultural exporter that has, at many points in its history, applied expo...

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Main Authors: Cicowiez, Martín, Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina, Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: International Microsimulation Association 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154533
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Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
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description This paper studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both world and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with a special focus on export taxes. Argentina offers an interesting case study as the only large agricultural exporter that has, at many points in its history, applied export taxes to several of its agricultural products. The paper combines results from a global economy-wide model (World Bank's LINKAGE model), a national CGE model, and microsimulations. The results suggest that full liberalization of world trade (including subsidies and import taxes, but not export taxes), both for agricultural and non-agricultural goods, reduces poverty and inequality in Argentina. However, if only agricultural goods are included, indicators for poverty and inequality do not improve and even deteriorate somewhat. This is particularly the case if export taxes are eliminated.
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spelling CGSpace1545332024-11-14T11:41:05Z Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis Cicowiez, Martín Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio trade poverty models agricultural policies policies exports taxes trade liberalization computable general equilibrium models equality This paper studies the economic, poverty, and income inequality impacts of both world and domestic trade reform in Argentina, with a special focus on export taxes. Argentina offers an interesting case study as the only large agricultural exporter that has, at many points in its history, applied export taxes to several of its agricultural products. The paper combines results from a global economy-wide model (World Bank's LINKAGE model), a national CGE model, and microsimulations. The results suggest that full liberalization of world trade (including subsidies and import taxes, but not export taxes), both for agricultural and non-agricultural goods, reduces poverty and inequality in Argentina. However, if only agricultural goods are included, indicators for poverty and inequality do not improve and even deteriorate somewhat. This is particularly the case if export taxes are eliminated. 2010 2024-10-01T14:02:07Z 2024-10-01T14:02:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154533 en Open Access International Microsimulation Association Cicowiez, Martín; Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina; and Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2010. Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis. International Journal of Microsimulation 3(1): 118-122. https://www.microsimulation.org/IJM/V3_1/IJM_34.pdf
spellingShingle trade
poverty
models
agricultural policies
policies
exports
taxes
trade liberalization
computable general equilibrium models
equality
Cicowiez, Martín
Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title_full Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title_fullStr Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title_full_unstemmed Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title_short Impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in Argentina: Policy insights from a non-parametric CGE microsimulation analysis
title_sort impacts of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in argentina policy insights from a non parametric cge microsimulation analysis
topic trade
poverty
models
agricultural policies
policies
exports
taxes
trade liberalization
computable general equilibrium models
equality
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154533
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