Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a...

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Main Authors: Francois, Joseph, Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6312474/equity-welfare-setting-trade-policy-general-equilibrium
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8649

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