Scaling up infrastructure spending in the Philippines: A CGE top-down bottom-up microsimulation approach

Luc Savard

International Journal of Microsimulation, 2010, vol. 3, issue 1, 43-59

Abstract: In this paper we use a top-down bottom-up CGE microsimulation model with endogenous labour supply and unemployment to explore the impact of scaling up infrastructure spending in the Philippines. In the current debate on the importance of scaling up infrastructure to stimulate growth, some analysts raise concerns about potential negative macroeconomic impacts (Dutch disease). This study aims to provide some insight into this debate by extending the analysis to include distributional analysis. We draw from the infrastructure productivity literature to postulate positive productive externalities of new infrastructure and from Fay and Yepes (2003) to include operating and maintenance costs associated with new infrastructure. We investigate two fiscal tools and foreign aid as mechanisms to fund the new infrastructure and associated costs. The distributional analysis is performed with FGT indices and growth incidence curves. Our results reveal that infrastructure spending reduces poverty. Foreign aid is shown to be the most equitable funding mechanism, whereas a value added tax provides the strongest poverty reduction.

Keywords: Investment externalities; infrastructure; foreign aid; fiscal reforms; poverty; CGE; microsimulation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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Working Paper: Scaling Up Infrastructure Spending in the Philippines: A CGE Top-Down Bottom-Up Microsimulation Approach (2010)
Working Paper: Scaling up Infrastructure spending in the Philippines: A CGE top-down/bottom up microsimulation approach (2010)
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