Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154921 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 63.1998
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper considers the relationship between natural resource management and poverty by analysing a specific example: an inland fishery in Bangladesh. The analysis involves substantial extensions to standard models and allows the simulation of market distortions and alternative management policies, using data from the fishery. The simulations show that fish migration is the most important distortion. They also show that both wage reductions and bans on capital-intensive gears can increase employment, and so reduce poverty, without endangering the sustainability of the resource. The techniques used here can be applied to other fisheries and non-fish natural resources.
Subjects: 
Renewable resources
Poverty reduction
Fishery models
Environment and development
JEL: 
O2
Q2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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