GTAP-POV: A Framework for Assessing the National Poverty Impacts of Global Economic and Environmental Policies

Hertel, Thomas W.; Verma, Monika; Ivanic, Maros; Ríos, Ana R.

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“…In a sensitivity analysis, we also consider economic impacts when an alternative labor response function based on empirical measurements of labor productivities under heat is employed. (C) These labor capacity losses are then used as inputs into a global GE economic model, dubbed GTAP‐POV (Hertel et al., 2011). (D) The central innovation in this paper, in addition to the more accurate WBGT formulation, is the assessment of impacts on impoverished households, as well as the overall poverty headcount.…”

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“…For the estimation of poverty impacts, we use elements of GTAP‐POV (Hertel et al., 2011), an extended version of the standard GTAP model (Corong et al., 2017; Hertel, 1997). The ‐POV extension to GTAP estimates changes in the real incomes of households near the poverty line, and the resulting poverty changes using an elasticity approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Key elements of these steps are summarized as follows, while a detailed exposition of GTAP‐POV is provided in Hertel et al. (2011).…”

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“…In our implementation of the GTAP‐POV model, we use version 10 of the GTAP database (Aguiar et al., 2019). For the implementation of the ‐POV module, see GTAP‐POV technical paper (Hertel et al., 2011).…”

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“…This last step departs from the standard GTAP-POV approach that estimates poverty impacts using an elasticity approach, which can be seen as an approximation of the microsimulation approach adopted here. Key elements of these steps are summarized as follows, while a detailed exposition of GTAP-POV is provided in Hertel et al (2011).…”

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This paper assesses the poverty implications of heat stress‐related labor capacity losses based on simulations using a global general equilibrium economic model. Compared with past studies, we use a more precise measurement of heat stress, assign labor capacity losses to specific labor types by sector, and employ an economic model that contains highly disaggregated economic sectors and regions. This model allows us to determine global and regional economic impacts that account for international dependencies. We focus attention on seven West African countries for which we determine the implied changes in real incomes of households near the poverty line. For these countries, we use household microsimulations to determine potential impacts on the poverty headcount. In our results, poverty impacts are heterogeneous across countries and earning sources‐based household strata. A key channel behind this heterogeneity is how loss of labor productivity affects the relative returns to factors of production. We find that unskilled agricultural wages could increase, as loss of productivity in the face of inelastic food demand induces increased labor demand in order to dampen agricultural output losses. In our experiments, even neglecting potential increases in mortality and morbidity, poverty increases range from 2.3% in Cameroon to up to 7.2%–9.2% in Ghana and Nigeria. In one of the seven countries considered, Guinea, poverty sees little change due to the mitigating effects of rising labor wages.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Key elements of these steps are summarized as follows, while a detailed exposition of GTAP‐POV is provided in Hertel et al. (2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

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GTAP-POV: A Framework for Assessing the National Poverty Impacts of Global Economic and Environmental Policies

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

The Poverty Impacts of Labor Heat Stress in West Africa Under a Warming Climate

The Poverty Impacts of Labor Heat Stress in West Africa Under a Warming Climate

Benefits and Costs of the Trade Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Trade Barriers and Subsidies

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