Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA exporters in t...

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Autores principales:	Nicita, Alessandro, Olarreaga, Marcelo, Porto, Guido
Formato:	Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:	Español
Publicado:	2012
Materias:	Ciencias Económicas JEL: F13, F16 pobreza África del Sur del Sahara economía poverty trade policy wage elasticities
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/45905 http://cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/download.php?file=archivos_upload/doc_cedlas134.pdf
Aporte de:	SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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topic	Ciencias Económicas JEL: F13, F16 pobreza África del Sur del Sahara economía poverty trade policy wage elasticities
spellingShingle	Ciencias Económicas JEL: F13, F16 pobreza África del Sur del Sahara economía poverty trade policy wage elasticities Nicita, Alessandro Olarreaga, Marcelo Porto, Guido Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
topic_facet	Ciencias Económicas JEL: F13, F16 pobreza África del Sur del Sahara economía poverty trade policy wage elasticities
description	The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA exporters in the rest-of-the-world are biased in favor of poor or rich household. To this end, we start with a simple agricultural household production model and propose an extension to include adjustments in labor income associated with changes in unskilled and skilled wages. We then build indicators that capture the di erences in welfare changes across income levels associated with the elimination of SSA's own trade protection, as well as trade protection on SSA's export bundle by the rest-of-the-world. Results suggest that SSA's own trade policy is biased in favor of poor households. In contrast, the trade policies of SSA's trading partners tend to be biased in favor of SSA's rich households, especially when ad-valorem equivalents of NTMs are taken into account.
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title	Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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