Making unilateral trade liberalisation beneficial to the poor |
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Authors: | Sanjaya Acharya [Author Vitae] |
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Institution: | Saraswati Multiple Campus, Faculty of Economics, Tribhuvan University, Thamel 29, Kathmandu, Nepal |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we investigate the impacts of unilateral import liberalisation by a representative South Asian developing economy, Nepal, and demonstrate those conditions required to make the impacts ‘pro-poor.’ Applying the Computable General Equilibrium model to Social Accounting Matrix data, we conclude that import liberalisation is growth-enhancing but that, unfortunately, the rich benefit more than do the poor. We envisage a restructured but plausible model economy that requires a transformational period of ten years, and simulate unilateral trade liberalisation but, in the context of a dynamic model. We conclude that improvement in efficiency parameters, reorganisation of investment patterns, along with reallocation of factors of production by both household group and activity type are required to make growth accrued by import liberalisation ‘pro-poor’ in developing economies such as that of Nepal. |
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Keywords: | Import liberalisation CGE model Poverty Pro-poor growth Economic restructuring |
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