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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| description | 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 increase in direct taxes that primarily hits the non-poor. Experiments where lost tariff revenue is compensated by increased sales taxes instead of direct taxes indicate that this would have had much more negative poverty implications. Poverty in Manila falls most as unskilled urban workers profit from the expansion of semi-conductor exports. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1717952025-02-19T14:08:21Z Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis Cororaton, Caesar B. Cockburn, John computable general equilibrium models models international trade poverty 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 increase in direct taxes that primarily hits the non-poor. Experiments where lost tariff revenue is compensated by increased sales taxes instead of direct taxes indicate that this would have had much more negative poverty implications. Poverty in Manila falls most as unskilled urban workers profit from the expansion of semi-conductor exports. 2007-01 2025-01-29T12:58:45Z 2025-01-29T12:58:45Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/171795 en Limited Access Elsevier Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John. 2007. Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis. Journal of Policy Modeling 29(1): 141-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2006.07.006 |
| spellingShingle | computable general equilibrium models models international trade poverty Cororaton, Caesar B. Cockburn, John Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title | Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title_full | Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title_fullStr | Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title_short | Trade reform and poverty -- lessons from the Philippines: a CGE-microsimulation analysis |
| title_sort | trade reform and poverty lessons from the philippines a cge microsimulation analysis |
| topic | computable general equilibrium models models international trade poverty |
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