Poverty Effects of Russia's WTO Accession : Modeling "Real" Households and Endogenous Productivity Effects

The authors use a computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the poor. Their model is innovative in that they incorporate all 55,000 households from the Russian Hous...

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Main Authors: Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David, Shepotylo, Oleksandr
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/2005/01/5601479/poverty-effects-russias-wto-accession-modeling-real-households-endogenous-productivity-effects
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8895