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Abstract
Vietnam has negotiated a series of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and has made
significant steps in integrating into the world economy. This integration is likely to have both
positive and negative effects on different stakeholders in the economy. This paper seeks to
measure the effects on the welfare of Vietnam’s small livestock producers' by linking a household
model and the GTAP trade model. A GTAP utility SplitCom is used to separate out pig and
poultry prior to several trade liberalisation scenarios being run. A recursive household model with
a two-stage LES-AIDS model on consumption side and Cobb-Douglas functions on production
side are used. Impacts of likely changes in the prices of inputs and outputs arising from different
trade scenarios on behavior and welfare of the farm household are presented.