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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| author | Cicowiez, Martín Díaz-Bonilla, Carolina 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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