TY - BOOK ID - 40137044 TI - Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies and External Shocks : Three Case Studies from Latin America Combining Macro and Micro Approaches. PY - 2007 SN - 3631753659 PB - Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, DB - UniCat KW - Political science & theory KW - Economic theory & philosophy KW - Labour economics KW - Development economics & emerging economies KW - Brazil KW - Colombia KW - Bolivia KW - Economic conditions KW - Economic policy. KW - America KW - Approaches KW - Armut KW - Case KW - Combining KW - Distributional KW - Economic KW - External KW - from KW - Impact KW - Income distribution KW - Inzidenz (Wirtschaft) KW - Kolumbien KW - Latin KW - Macro KW - Macro-micro model KW - Micro KW - Microsimulation KW - Policies KW - Poverty KW - Resource boom KW - Shocks KW - Studies KW - Three KW - Trade policy KW - Political science KW - Economics KW - Labor economics. KW - Development economics. KW - Economic development KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - State, The UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40137044 AB - Economists have had much to say about the impact of economic policies on growth, but little on their distributional consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and distributional impact of policy changes and external shocks in three case studies from Latin America: Trade liberalization in Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium and microsimulation models. The country applications illustrate that distributional consequences depend very much on the nature of the shock or policy change as well as the characteristics of the country in question. The book issues a warning against policy prescriptions being based on oversimplifying assumptions and models. ER -