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  • is the impact of public investment neutral across the Regional Income Distribution evidence from mexico
    Economic Geography, 2009
    Co-Authors: Joan Costaifont, Eduardo Rodriguezoreggia
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates the contribution of public investment to the reduction of Regional inequalities, with a specific application to Mexico. We use quantile regressions to examine the impact of public investment on Regional disparities according to the position of each region in the conditional Distribution of Regional Income. Results confirm the hypothesis that Regional inequalities can indeed be attributed to the Regional Distribution of public investment, where the observed pattern shows that public investment mainly helped to reduce Regional inequalities between the richest regions.

Pedro Ramos - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • A Regional Model for the Portuguese Economy Based on a Regional Accounting Matrix
    2020
    Co-Authors: Pedro Ramos
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a model for the Portuguese economy based on a so-called "Regional Accounting Matrix" (RAM). The RAM is an accounting table made up of information provided by the standard National and Regional Accounts, with a framework inspired in the social accounting matrixes, where regions took the place of the social groups. Starting with the RAM, the paper then develops an input-output-type model closed with respect to the households' consumption. This model is based on a "hypothesis of non-existence of Regional preference in supplying regions". The model allows the computation of several multipliers – the most striking of them describe the inter-Regional Income Distribution process. In fact, an increase in Income, at the beginning in benefit of the households living in one region, may cross the region borders and propagate into other regions, increasing then the households' Income in the latter regions.

  • A Regional Model for the Portuguese Economy Based on a Regional Accounting Matrix
    2001
    Co-Authors: Pedro Ramos
    Abstract:

    This paper presents a model for the Portuguese economy based on a so-called “Regional Accounting Matrix” (RAM). The RAM is an accounting table made up of information provided by the standard Portuguese National and Regional Accounts, with a similar framework than the well-known social accounting matrixes. The RAM includes Regionalised information concerning the generation and the use of the households" Income, but other parts of the table, namely those referring the structure of inputs in the production process, are at national level. Starting with the RAM, the paper then develops an input-output-type model closed with respect to the households" consumption. This model is based in a “no Regional preference hypothesis in supplying each region”. By this hypothesis we mean that every increase in demand, even when Regionally located, is complied by a national supply (and also by international imports), and not preferentially by an increase in output of the very concerned region. The model proposed for the Portuguese economy, for the year of 1995, includes the computation of several multipliers - the most striking of them describe the inter-Regional Income Distribution process. In fact, an increase in Income, at the beginning in benefit of the households living in one region, may cross the region borders and propagate into other regions, increasing then the households" Income in the latter regions. The model also provides other outstanding multipliers, as those describing the effect on the Regional households" Income of changes in demand of 49 kinds of products, and those computing the change in output of these 49 products induced by exogenous shocks in the Regional Income.

Shaojie Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

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  • Would Trade Liberalization Help the Poor of Brazil? - Would Trade Liberalization Help the Poor of Brazil
    2009
    Co-Authors: Joaquim Bento De Souza Ferreira Filho, Mark Horridge
    Abstract:

    This paper addresses the potential effects of world agricultural trade liberalization on poverty and Regional Income Distribution in Brazil, using an inter-Regional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and a micro-simulation model of Brazil tailored for Income Distribution and poverty analysis by using a detailed representation of households. The model distinguishes 10 different labor types and has 270 different household expenditure patterns. Income can originate from 41 different production activities located in 27 different regions in the country. The AGE model communicates to a micro-simulation model that has around 112,000 Brazilian households and 264,000 adults. Poverty and Income Distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of households and persons, before and after the policy shocks. The simulated trade liberalization scenario causes agriculture to expand considerably and so, given the importance that agriculture still has for the poorest in Brazil, it has positive impacts on poverty in Brazil. The only states which show an increase in the number of poor households are Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, where the bulk of the manufacturing activities in Brazil are concentrated. There is an even more positive impact on inequality. The higher fall in the poverty gap is shown to occur mainly on the poorest household groups, suggesting that the poorest among Brazil's poor will benefit more from global trade liberalization.

  • WOULD AGRICULTURAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION HELP THE POOR OF BRAZIL
    2008
    Co-Authors: Joaquim Bento Ferreira-filho, Mark Horridge
    Abstract:

    This paper addresses the potential effects of world agricultural trade liberalization on poverty and Regional Income Distribution in Brazil, using an inter-Regional applied general equilibrium (AGE) and micro-simulation model of Brazil tailored for Income Distribution and poverty analysis. The representative household hypothesis was replaced by a detailed representation of households. The model distinguishes 10 different labor types, and has 270 different household expenditure patterns. Income can originate from 41 different production activities (which produce 52 commodities), located in 27 different regions in the country. The AGE model communicates to a micro-simulation model that has 112,055 Brazilian households and 263,938 adults. Poverty and Income Distribution indices are computed over the entire sample of households and persons, before and after the policy shocks. The simulated trade liberalization scenario has positive impacts on poverty in Brazil. The trade liberalization scenario causes agriculture to expand considerably, with positive effects on poverty. This highlights the importance that agriculture still has for the poorest in Brazil. The Regional implications of this fact are that the states which concentrate the bulk of the manufacturing activities in Brazil, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, tend to show an increase in the number of poor households. Another important point arising from this analysis is the positive impact on inequality, which is found to be more significant than the one observed on the headcount ratio. This inequality improvement would be equivalent, in terms of poverty reduction, to a significant rate of economic growth. The higher fall in the poverty gap is shown to occur mainly on the poorest household groups, suggesting that the poorest among the poor would benefit more from the global trade liberalization scenario.