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Author Acharya, Sanjaya

Title Pro-poor Growth and Liberalization in Developing Economies : the Case of Nepal
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Pro-poor Growth and Liberalization in Developing Economies The case of Nepal; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 Background and objectives; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Questions on the relation between liberalization and distribution; 1.3 Liberalization with pro-poor growth: a general equilibrium restructuring approach; 1.4 Overview; 2 Nepal's trade policy reforms; 2.1 Nepal's geopolitical situation; 2.2 Nepal's trade regime; 2.3 Nepal and the WTO; 2.4 Policy implications
3 Liberalization reforms and poverty: theory and empirics3.1 Contemporary debates on liberalization and reform policies; 3.2 Bretton Woods institutions and economic reforms; 3.3 Liberalizations and their distributional impacts: empirics; 3.4 Trend of inequality/poverty in Nepal; 3.5 Policy implications; 4 The social accounting matrix of Nepal; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 SAM components; 4.3 Additional clarifications; 4.4 Schematic and numerical Nepal SAM 1996; 4.5 The Nepalese economy as characterized by SAM; 4.6 Policy implications
5 Nepal CGE model and calibration: simulations of liberalization and reform policies5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Key features; 5.3 The basic model; 5.4 Specification of the model; 5.5 Macroeconomic closures and system constraints; 5.6 The model calibration; 5.7 Simulations of liberalization and reform policies; 5.8 Simulation results; 5.9 Choice of the numeraire and robustness of results; 5.10 Macroeconomic features; 5.11 Household welfare; 5.12 Conclusion and policy implications; 6 Dynamic Nepal CGE model: higher and pro-poor growth; 6.1 Introduction
6.2 Nepal SAM 2006 and comparison with Nepal SAM 1996: construction and multipliers6.3 Extension of Nepal CGE 1996 to Nepal CGE 2006; 6.4 Estimation and calibration of the dynamic Nepal CGE model (2006); 6.5 Policy simulation results: comparison between static 1996 and dynamic 2006; 6.6 Conclusion and policy implications; 7 Endmatter; 7.1 Summary; 7.2 Conclusion; 7.3 Policy implications; Appendices; Appendix A1: Alternative closure rules for macro system constraints; Appendix A2: Nepal CGE model; Appendix A3: Model parameters and coefficients in dynamic Nepal CGE
Appendix A4: Specifications of the dynamic modelNotes; References; Index
Summary This book focuses on the link between trade liberalization and poverty. The author develops a social accounting database for Nepal and applies it to an investigation of the trade-offs between growth and distribution that are associated with opening up the economy and deregulating it
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Subject Economic development -- Nepal
Equilibrium (Economics) -- Mathematical models
Economic development.
Economic policy.
Equilibrium (Economics) -- Mathematical models.
SUBJECT Nepal -- Economic policy -- 21st century
Subject Nepal.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203808887
0203808886