04965nam 22006973 450 991029703990332120230914210110.09783631753651363175365910.3726/b13887(CKB)4100000007276998(OAPEN)1003157(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35323(MiAaPQ)EBC30686267(Au-PeEL)EBL30686267(ScCtBLL)fe6082f1-b013-42bc-8bd0-13f62a617768(OCoLC)1163818331(EXLCZ)99410000000727699820230911d2007 uy 0enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPoverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro ApproachesFirst edition.Frankfurt am Main :Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,2007.©2007.1 online resource (154 pages)Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics.9783631565599 3631565593 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.Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and distributional impact of policy changes and external shocks in three case studies from Latin America: Trade liberalization in Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models. The country applications illustrate that distributional consequences depend very much on the nature of the shock or policy change as well as the characteristics of the country in question. The book issues a warning against policy prescriptions being based on oversimplifying assumptions and models.Goettinger Studien zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics vol. 18Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External ShocksPolitical scienceTheoryEconomicsTheoryEconomicsPhilosophyLabor economicsDevelopment economicsBrazilEconomic conditions1985-BrazilEconomic policyColombiaEconomic conditions1970-ColombiaEconomic policyBoliviaEconomic conditions1982-BoliviaEconomic policyPolitical scienceEconomicsEconomicsPhilosophy.Labor economics.Development economics.330.98Lay Jann966903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910297039903321Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks3553111UNINA