@article{Hassine:331710,
      recid = {331710},
      author = {Hassine, Nadia Belhaj and Décaluwé, Bernard},
      title = {Does Agricultural Trade Liberalization Help the Poor in  Tunisia? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach},
      address = {2008},
      pages = {29},
      year = {2008},
      note = {Presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Global Economic  Analysis, Helsinki, Finland},
      abstract = {Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained  continuously in popularity as an empirical tool for  assessing the impact of trade liberalization on growth,  poverty and equity. In recent years, there have been  attempts to extend the scope of CGE trade models to the  analysis of the interaction of agricultural growth, poverty  and income distribution. Conventional models ignore however  the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade  openness and poverty. This study seeks to incorporate  econometric evidence of these linkages into a dynamic  sequential CGE model, to estimate the impact of alternative  trade liberalization scenarios on welfare, poverty and  equity. The analysis uses the latent class stochastic  frontier model in investigating the influence of  international trade on agricultural technological change  and productivity. The estimated productivity gains induced  from a more opened trade regime are combined with a general  equilibrium analysis of trade liberalization to evaluate  the direct welfare benefits of poor farmers and the  indirect income and prices outcomes. These effects are then  used to infer the impact on poverty using the traditional  top-down approach and the Tunisian household survey.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331710},
}