TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lay, Jann
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.3726/b13887
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1003157
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1083018578
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/26886
KW  - America
KW  - Approaches
KW  - Armut
KW  - Case
KW  - Combining
KW  - Distributional
KW  - Economic
KW  - External
KW  - from
KW  - Impact
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Inzidenz (Wirtschaft)
KW  - Kolumbien
KW  - Latin
KW  - Macro
KW  - Macro-micro model
KW  - Micro
KW  - Microsimulation
KW  - Policies
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Resource boom
KW  - Shocks
KW  - Studies
KW  - Three
KW  - Trade policy
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26886/1/1003157.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26886/1/1003157.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26886/1/1003157.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/26886/1/1003157.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35323
PB  - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
PP  - Bern
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783631753651
TI  - Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches
ER  - 
