TY - JOUR
T1 - Agricultural liberalization, poverty and inequality
T2 - Indonesia and Thailand
AU - Warr, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2014/12/1
Y1 - 2014/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - General equilibrium modeling
KW - Indonesia
KW - Poverty incidence
KW - Thailand
KW - Trade liberalization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84919396994&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.asieco.2014.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.asieco.2014.10.003
M3 - Article
SN - 1049-0078
VL - 35
SP - 92
EP - 106
JO - Journal of Asian Economics
JF - Journal of Asian Economics
ER -