Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis

Little is known about the poverty implications of major trade reforms in the Philippines. Using a CGE-microsimulation analysis, tariff cuts between 1994 and 2000 are shown to have been generally poverty-reducing. This is due to a fall in consumer prices and, to compensate lost tariff revenue, an inc...

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Main Authors: Cororaton, Caesar B., Cockburn, John
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2007
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171795

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