Title Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches / Jann Lay.

Publication Info.	Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, [2018]
	©2007

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
All Libraries - Shared Downloadable Materials	JSTOR Open Access Ebook	Downloadable
All patrons click here to access this title from JSTOR
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet	WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK JSTOR	Downloadable
Please click here to access this JSTOR resource

Edition	1st, New ed.
Description	1 online resource.
Series	Göttinger Studien zur Entwicklungsökonomik / Göttingen Studies in Development Economics ; 18
Thesis	Doctoral Thesis.
Contents	Poverty and distributional impact analysis - Country case studies from Latin America - Trade liberalization in Colombia - Doha-Round in Brazil - Bolivian gas boom - Combination of computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models - Sequential macro-micro models.
Summary	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.
Biography	The Author: Jann Lay is research associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and completed a doctorate in economics at the University of Göttingen (Germany). He has worked as a consultant to different development agencies on various developing countries in Africa and Latin America. His research interests include pro-poor growth, poverty impact analysis, and the resource curse.
Note	Online resource; title from title screen (viewed December 28, 2018).
	GMD: electronic resource.
Subject	Poverty -- Research -- Brazil -- Case studies.
	Poverty -- Research -- Colombia -- Case studies.
	Poverty -- Research -- Bolivia -- Case studies.
	Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985-
	Brazil -- Economic policy.
	Colombia -- Economic conditions -- 1970-
	Colombia -- Economic policy.
	Bolivia -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
	Bolivia -- Economic policy.
Other Form:	Print version: 9783631565599
Standard No.	9783631753651
	10.3726/b13887 doi
ISBN	9783631753651 (electronic bk.)
	3631753659 (electronic bk.)

-->

Permanent Link

Add a Review

Title Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches / Jann Lay.

Copies

Library Links

Search Tools

Language Settings