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Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility

This paper computes the worldwide efficiency gains from the elimination of global restrictions on labour mobility using a multiregional CGE model. A distinctive feature of our analysis is the introduction of a segmented labour market, as two types of...

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The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed Countries

Using a computable general equilibrium simulation model and partial equilibrium simulations, based on the SMART model, the paper attempts to assess the aggregate worldwide distribution of gains and losses of the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA)...

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The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus

The present paper utilises a short-run theoretical macroeconomic model of a small open economy to look at the impact of macroeconomic policies and financial deepening upon poverty through sectoral changes. This is because an expansion in certain...

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Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa

We examine the properties of alternative monetary policy rules in response to large aid surges in low-income countries characterized by incomplete capital market integration and currency substitution. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium...

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Gains from Trade

This paper reassesses the gains from trade for sub-Saharan Africa, and draws their implications for labour market adjustment and poverty reduction. It reviews previous studies on multilateral liberalization, focusing on the findings from computable...

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Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa

Part of Journal Special Issue Development Aid

Journal Article
Gains from Trade

Part of Journal Special Issue Globalization-Poverty Channels and Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa

Book Chapter
The Poverty Macroeconomic Policy Nexus

Part of Book Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction

Book Chapter
Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility

Part of Book Poverty, International Migration and Asylum

Book Chapter
The EU's Everything But Arms Initiative and the Least-developed Countries

Part of Book The WTO, Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda

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