Trade Policies and Poverty in Uganda: A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis

Milton Ayoki

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Abstract: This paper uses a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) framework and benchmark data from Uganda national household survey to estimate the impact of trade liberalisation on poverty in Uganda. Three simulations are performed: removal of EAC tariffs, removal of non-EAC COMESA tariffs and removal of all tariffs. Our results indicate that poverty falls in all cases, but poverty falls much more in the case of a complete removal of tariffs on all imports (2.94%), compared with the case of removal of EAC tariffs (2.76%) or non-EAC COMESA tariffs (1.08%).

Keywords: Computable General Equilibrium Models; Micro-Simulation Analysis; Trade Policies; Poverty; Uganda. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 D78 F13 F14 F15 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07
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