Trade reforms, poverty and inequality in Bangladesh / Bodrun Nahar, Mahinda Siriwardana and Malcolm Treadgold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nahar, Bodrun, author.

Siriwardana, Mahinda, author.

Treadgold, Malcolm, author.

Series:

Trade issues, policies and laws series.

Trade Issues, Policies and Laws

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Bangladesh.

Poverty.

Income distribution--Bangladesh.

Income distribution.

Bangladesh--Commercial policy.

Bangladesh.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Trade liberalisation reforms in Bangladesh have been accompanied by impressive economic growth and substantial reductions in poverty. Nevertheless, there is concern that increasing inequality has limited the poverty-reducing impact of economic growth. Against this backdrop, the present study uses a multi-sectoral, multi-factor and multi-household computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to simulate the short-run and long-run effects of the unilateral elimination of import tariffs on poverty and inequality in Bangladesh. In doing so, the study also explores the effects on macroeconomic perfor

Contents:

""TRADE REFORMS, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN BANGLADESH""; ""TRADE REFORMS, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN BANGLADESH""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS""; ""LIST OF TABLES""; ""LIST OF FIGURES""; ""LIST OF APPENDICES""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""; ""Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION""; ""1.1. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY""; ""1.2. TRADE LIBERALISATION AND THE BANGLADESH ECONOMY""; ""1.3. RESEARCH PROBLEM""; ""1.4. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY""; ""1.5. METHODOLOGY""; ""1.6. OUTLINE OF THE STUDY""

""Chapter 2: THE BANGLADESH ECONOMY: POLICIES AND PERFORMANCE""""2.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN THE 1970S""; ""2.3. NATURE AND EXTENT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS""; ""2.4. MEASURING THE DEGREE OF OPENNESS""; ""2.5. MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE""; ""2.6. SUMMING-UP""; ""Chapter 3: AN OVERVIEW OF POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND THE LABOUR MARKET IN BANGLADESH""; ""3.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""3.2. A POVERTY PROFILE OF BANGLADESH""; ""3.3. TRENDS IN INCOME INEQUALITY IN BANGLADESH""; ""3.4. LABOUR MARKET DEVELOPMENTS IN BANGLADESH""; ""3.5. CONCLUDING REMARKS""

""Chapter 4: A SURVEY OF LITERATURE""""4.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""4.2. THEORETICAL APPROACHES""; ""4.3. METHODS OF EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS""; ""4.4. CGE MODELLING IN BANGLADESH""; ""Chapter 5: THE BANGLADESH MODEL: THEORETICAL STRUCTURE""; ""5.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""5.2. SETS, VARIABLES AND COEFFICIENTS OF THE MODEL""; ""5.3. STRUCTURE OF THE CORE MODEL""; ""5.4. INCOME DISTRIBUTION, SAVING AND CONSUMPTION""; ""5.5. ENDOGENISING POVERTY LINES""; ""5.6. CLOSING AND CHECKING THE MODEL""; ""5.7. SOLVING THE BANGLADESH MODEL""; ""Chapter 6: THE DATABASE""; ""6.1. INTRODUCTION""

""6.2. BASIC DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MODEL""""6.3. DATA SOURCES""; ""6.4. STEPS IN THE COMPILATION OF INPUT-OUTPUT DATABASE""; ""6.5. ELASTICITIES AND OTHER PARAMETERS""; ""6.6. DATA COMPILATION FOR INCOME DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS""; ""6.7. HOUSEHOLD INCOME COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION""; ""Chapter 7: ELIMINATING TARIFFS: MACROECONOMIC, SECTORAL AND HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS""; ""7.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""7.2. SIMULATION DESIGN""; ""7.3. MODEL CLOSURE""; ""7.4. SIMULATION RESULTS""; ""7.5. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Chapter 8: ELIMINATING TARIFFS: EFFECTS ON POVERTY AND INEQUALITY""

""8.1. INTRODUCTION""""8.2. THE NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACH TO INCOME DISTRIBUTION: ESTIMATION WITH THE KERNEL METHOD""; ""8.3. POVERTY MEASURES""; ""8.4. INCORPORATING POVERTY ANALYSIS INTO THE CGE MODEL""; ""8.5. ESTIMATION OF POVERTY INDICES""; ""8.6. INEQUALITY MEASURES""; ""8.7. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS""; ""8.8. MAIN FINDINGS""; ""Chapter 9: CONCLUSION""; ""9.1. INTRODUCTION""; ""9.2. OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY""; ""9.3. SUMMARY OF RESULTS""; ""9.4. POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""9.5. LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH""; ""9.6. AREAS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH""; ""APPENDICES""; ""APPENDIX A""; ""APPENDIX B""

""APPENDIX C""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63321-535-0

OCLC:

887230224