The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis

Ziaur Rahman

Asian Journal of Empirical Research, 2014, vol. 4, issue 4, 240-253

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on poverty reduction in Bangladesh by using Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis. By using CGE analysis we see that WTO and SAFTA have a positive impact of increasing in household welfare in Bangladesh through increasing in household consumption in Bangladesh. The major findings of two simulation results show that under the complete abolition the tariff rate, the exports of all sectors increase significantly. Output of mineral sector, social service sectors decreases; however, consumption increases for all sectors and import increase in all sectors except financial and service sectors. The simulation result suggests that the liberalization of trade policy can be applicable in the case of Bangladesh because liberal trade policy helps to reduce the poverty in Bangladesh and improve social welfare by increase in consumption.

Keywords: Computable general equilibrium (CGE) model; trade liberalization; poverty reduction; Bangladesh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5004/article/view/3788/5972 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:asi:ajoerj:v:4:y:2014:i:4:p:240-253:id:3788

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Asian Journal of Empirical Research from Asian Economic and Social Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Robert Allen ().