Agricultural liberalization, poverty and inequality: Indonesia and Thailand

Peter Warr

Journal of Asian Economics, 2014, vol. 35, issue C, 92-106

Abstract: The effects of agricultural and general trade liberalization in Indonesia and Thailand are analyzed and compared using a multi-household, multi-sector integrated general equilibrium framework. In both countries agricultural protection contributes a relatively small part of the total cost of protection because when the protection is removed the gain in welfare is much smaller in the case of agricultural liberalization than across the board liberalization. In both countries the poor, urban and rural, have a strong interest in across the board liberalization of trade policy. The urban poor also have an interest in agricultural trade liberalization, but not the rural poor.

Keywords: Indonesia; Thailand; Trade liberalization; Poverty incidence; General equilibrium modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D58 F14 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2014.10.003

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