The economic consequences of a fuel levy reform in South Africa (2009)
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret, Amusa, Hammed
This paper assesses the economic effects of a hypothetical fuel levy imposed by South African provinces. The welfare effects of increasing the fuel levy by 10 per cent are negative but very small....
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu, Tonia Kandiero
ABSTRACT The paper uses a microsimulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14,006...
Evaluating the impact of land redistribution : a CGE microsimulation application to Zimbabwe (2008)
Chitiga, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially...
Evaluating the impact of land redistribution : a CGE microsimulation application to Zimbabwe (2008)
Chitiga, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially...
Evaluating the Impact of Land Redistribution: A CGE Microsimulation Application to Zimbabwe (2008)
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially...
South Africa trade liberalization and poverty in a dynamic microsimulation CGE model (2007)
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to...
Is increased agricultural protection beneficial for South Africa? (2007)
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
This paper focuses on the effects that a higher tariff on agriculture and food imports could have on poverty and the macroeconomy using a top down computable general equilibrium microsimulation...
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Kandiero, Tonia, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households...
South Africa trade liberalization and poverty in a dynamic microsimulation CGE model (2007)
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to...
Is increased agricultural protection beneficial for South Africa? (2007)
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
This paper focuses on the effects that a higher tariff on agriculture and food imports could have on poverty and the macroeconomy using a top down computable general equilibrium microsimulation...
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Kandiero, Tonia, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households...
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Kandiero, Tonia, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
The paper uses a microsimulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14,006 households...
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Kandiero, Tonia, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
The paper uses a microsimulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14,006 households...
Cockburn, John, Fofana, Ismael, Decaluwe, Bernard, Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, ...
Despite the general presumption in favor of trade liberalization, the question of how to implement it in a way to ensure equitable income distribution and sustainable poverty alleviation in...
Cockburn, John, Fofana, Ismael, Decaluwe, Bernard, Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Margaret, ...
Despite the general presumption in favor of trade liberalization, the question of how to implement it in a way to ensure equitable income distribution and sustainable poverty alleviation in...
Blignaut, James Nelson, Mabugu, Margaret, Gerlagh, Reyer, Hess, Sebastiaan, Tol, Richard S.J., ...
South Africa, as an upper middle-income, resource-intensive developing country with an open economy, has to find innovative ways to combat poverty, promote economic growth and reduce the intensity of...
Blignaut, James Nelson, Mabugu, Margaret, Gerlagh, Reyer, Hess, Sebastiaan, Tol, Richard S.J., ...
South Africa, as an upper middle-income, resource-intensive developing country with an open economy, has to find innovative ways to combat poverty, promote economic growth and reduce the intensity of...
Macroeconomic policies and industrial wood processing and trade in Zimbabwe (2006)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between macroeconomic policies and industrial forestry developments in Zimbabwe. A principal rationale for the emphasis on macroeconomic...
Gerlagh, Reyer, Blignaut, James Nelson, Horridge, Mark, Hess, Sebastiaan, Mabugu, Ramos, ...
A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...
Macroeconomic policies and industrial wood processing and trade in Zimbabwe (2006)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between macroeconomic policies and industrial forestry developments in Zimbabwe. A principal rationale for the emphasis on macroeconomic...
Gerlagh, Reyer, Blignaut, James Nelson, Horridge, Mark, Hess, Sebastiaan, Mabugu, Ramos, ...
A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...
The impact of tariff reduction on poverty in Zimbabwe : a CGE top-down approach (2005)
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
This paper uses a relatively new approach to quantify the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty. It relies on the combination of a standard, social accounting, matrix-based, computable general...
The impact of tariff reduction on poverty in Zimbabwe : a CGE top-down approach (2005)
Chitiga, Margaret, Mabugu, Ramos, Mabugu, Margaret, Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret
This paper uses a relatively new approach to quantify the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty. It relies on the combination of a standard, social accounting, matrix-based, computable general...
Short-run Effects of Tariff Reform in Zimbabwe: Applied General Equilibrium Analysis (2001)
This paper applies a short‐run computable general equilibrium model for Zimbabwe to analyse how tariff reform could have modified the effects of the actual trade liberalisation that took place...
Margaret Chitiga, Tonia Kandiero, Ramos Mabugu
The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of trade liberalisation in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households derived from...
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
The debate about the consequences of economic growth on poverty and welfare was recently rekindled in South Africa by announcements that the government would be targeting a sustainable growth rate of...
Does Trade Liberalisation Lead to Poverty Alleviation? a CGE Microsimulation Approach for Zimbabwe
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu
A CGE microsimulation model is used to study the poverty impacts of trade liberalization in Zimbabwe. A sample of 14006 households from a 1995 household survey is individually modeled in a CGE...
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
There is an important debate going on in South Africa on whether to apply safeguard trade barriers to protect textiles. This presents an interesting case of how a country might use safeguard trade...
Poverty and Inequality Impacts of Trade Policy Reforms in South Africa
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to...
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu, Tonia Kandiero
The paper uses a microsimulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14,006 households...
The Economic Impacts of Government Financing of the 2010 FIFA World Cup
This paper presents estimates of the economic impacts of financing the hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup by the government of South Africa. Ex ante analysis using a fiscal social accounting matrix...
Is Increased Agricultural Protection Beneficial for South Africa?
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu
This paper focuses on the effects that a higher tariff on agriculture and food imports could have on poverty and the macroeconomy using a top down computable general equilibrium microsimulation...
Evaluating the Impact of Land Redistribution: A CGE Microsimulation Application to Zimbabwe
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially...
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu, Tonia Kandiero
The paper uses a micro-simulation computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to study the impact on poverty of a complete removal of tariffs in Zimbabwe. The model incorporates 14006 households...
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
The debate about the consequences of economic growth on poverty and welfare was recently rekindled in South Africa by announcements that the government would be targeting a sustainable growth rate of...
South Africa Trade Liberalization and Poverty in a Dynamic Microsimulation CGE Model
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to...
Is increased agricultural protection beneficial for South Africa?
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret
CGE model Microsimulation Agricultural trade policy Special and differential treatment Poverty Welfare South Africa
ACCOUNTING FOR FOREST RESOURCES IN ZIMBABWE
Mabugu, Ramos, Chitiga, Margaret
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Evaluating the Impact of Land Redistribution: A CGE Microsimulation Application to Zimbabwe
Margaret Chitiga, Ramos Mabugu
Zimbabwe has recently gone through a widely criticised land reform process. The country has suffered immensely as a result of this badly orchestrated reform process. Yet land reform can potentially...
Amusa, Hammed, Amusa, Kafayat, Mabugu, Ramos
Electricity demand in South Africa has grown at a very rapid rate over the past decade. As part of reform initiatives to enhance long-term sustainability of the country's electricity industry, South...
Jan Van Heerden, Reyer Gerlagh, James Blignaut, Mark Horridge, Sebastiaan Hess, Ramos Mabugu, ...
A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...
LIBERALISING TRADE IN SOUTH AFRICA: A SURVEY OF COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM STUDIES
Ramos Mabugu, Margaret Chitiga
This paper reviews applications of computable general equilibrium models to trade liberalisation in South Africa. It focuses on economic structure, data, macroeconomic closure and results of the...