Is MERCOSUR external agenda pro-poor? An assessment of the EU-MERCOSUR free trade agreement on Uruguayan poverty applying MIRAGE

Antoine Bouët, Carmen Estrades and David Laborde Debucquet

No 332042, Conference papers from Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project

Abstract: In 2010, after several years of being stalled, negotiations between MERCOSUR and the European Union to conform a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) were resumed. This FTA is expected to have an important impact on MERCOSUR economies, especially if both blocs reach an agreement regarding the agriculture sector. For a small country as Uruguay, one of the small economies of MERCOSUR, the conclusion of this agreement may have an important impact on the economy, and also on income distribution and poverty, as the FTA will have differentiated impact on the different sectors of the economy. This paper analyzes the impact of a FTA between MERCOSUR and EU making special focus on distributional impacts on Uruguay. For doing so, we apply an improved version of MIRAGE with household heterogeneity.

Keywords: International Relations/Trade; Consumer/Household Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2011
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