Distribution policy under trade liberalisation in Zimbabwe: a CGE analysis

Chitiga, Margaret

doi:10.1093/jae/9.2.101

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“…In this respect, our way of distributing the transfers to each chosen representative household group differs from a study of targeted versus unilateral transfers in the Zimbabwean economy by Chitiga (2000). The latter study also uses the RH approach, but the transfers are only distributed according to the total original income of each group and not according to the number of households within each group.…”

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Environmental Fiscal Reform in Namibia

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2012

The Journal of Environment & Development

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Environmental Fiscal Reform in Namibia

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2012

The Journal of Environment & Development

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“…Apart from the significance of their main conclusions-that the adjustment programmes were marginally beneficial to the poor, in that they precipitated a redistribution of benefits though without positive growth effects-the study was instrumental in provoking a useful debate about the appropriateness of the methodology used. There are many other good examples of the use of CGE models in this context for African countries, including Chitiga (2000), Chitiga, Kandeiro and Mabugu (2005), for Zimbabwe, and, most recently, Emini, Cockburn and Decaluwé (2006) for Cameroon and Abdelkhalek (2006) for Morocco. Some of the most recent examples are highly innovative in having fully linked microsimulation and recursive dynamic features, thereby potentially embracing a fuller range of macro-and meso-level effects on households.…”

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Globalization, Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective

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The Poor Under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

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The last two decades has witnessed an increase in globalizing influences affecting most countries, Africa included. These influences have arisen partly as a result of domestic and international policies, such as trade policies, and partly as a result of general globalizing impulses, such as technological developments and enhanced communications. The single overarching objective of this paper is to outline the macro evidence on the extent to which globalization is taking place and poverty is reducing in Africa, and to consider this to both characteristics of the region (i.e., within the region) and relative to other global regions. It draws on some of the most recent evidence about the globalizing processes in various forms so as to try to determine the speed and extent of globalization in Africa. This helps to put into proper perspective the impact of globalization on poverty and inequality. It is essentially a partial and descriptive approach, at best indicative of associations, and stops short of attempting to identify, empirically, channels of influence and causal relationships.

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“…Value added is modelled as a constant elasticity of substitution (CES) aggregation of capital and labour. In 3 Some of the published CGE evaluations applied to Zimbabwe include Davies et al (1994Davies et al ( , 1998, Rattsø and Torvik (1998), Chitiga (2000) and Mabugu (2001).…”

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Evaluating the Impact of Land Redistribution: A CGE Microsimulation Application to Zimbabwe

Chitiga

Mabugu²

2008

Journal of African Economies

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Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially increase average incomes, improve income distribution and as a consequence reduce poverty. This paper presents a counterfactual picture of what could have happened had land reform been handled differently. The paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model coupled with a microsimulation model in order to quantify the impact of land redistribution in terms of poverty, inequality and production. This is to our knowledge the first attempt to apply such an approach to the study of the impact of land reform on poverty and distribution in the context of an African country. The results for the land reform simulations show that the reform could have had the potential of generating substantial reductions in poverty and inequality in the rural areas. The well off households, however, would have seen a slight reduction in their welfare. What underpins these positive outcomes are the complementary adjustments in the fiscal deficit and external balance, elements that were generally lacking from the way Zimbabwe's land reform was actually executed. These results tend to suggest that well planned and executed land reforms can still play an important role in reducing poverty and inequality. JEL Classification: D31, D63, D58, Q15

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Distribution policy under trade liberalisation in Zimbabwe: a CGE analysis

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Environmental Fiscal Reform in Namibia

Environmental Fiscal Reform in Namibia

Globalization, Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Africa: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Evaluating the Impact of Land Redistribution: A CGE Microsimulation Application to Zimbabwe

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