Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127832 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 2004-01
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Makati City
Abstract: 
The paper employs an integrated CGE-microsimulation approach to analyze the possible effects of the Philippine-Japan bilateral agreements on unemployment, income distribution and poverty. The results indicate contraction in agriculture but expansion in industry, particular in the nonfood manufacturing sector. Factor prices drop in agriculture while increase in industry. Unemployment in agriculture deteriorates while in industry improves. Thus income inequality worsens. However, poverty improves, but the improvement is much higher in the National Capital Region (NCR) than in other areas, especially rural. NCR has the least poverty incidence while rural has the highest. The generally favourable poverty effects are due to the overall increase in household income and the reduction in consumer prices.
Subjects: 
unemployment
computable general equilibrium (CGE)
poverty
microsimulation
foreign trade
bilateral agreements
distribution
Philippines
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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