MPIA-12304 Simulating the Distributive Impacts of Different Growth Strategies in Pakistan

Abstract

Governments encourage growth through various policies: infrastructure, education, training, health, agricultural extension, trade, etc. Each strategy has wide-ranging impacts on the entire economy (sectoral production, wages and other factor returns, consumer prices, public finances, etc.) with very different distributive consequences. By building these "motors of growth" into an economy-wide model linked to a household survey-based microsimulation model, we will simulate the distributive impacts of various growth policies, provide insights on accompanying

Members

Project leader: Vaqar Ahmed

Project researchers: Saira Ahmed | Ahsan Abbas | Ghulam Samad

Journal publication

Authors	Co-Authors	Title of paper	Title of Economic Review	Bibliographic references
Vaqar Ahmed	Saira Ahmed,Ahsan Abbas	Public infrastructure and economic growth in Pakistan: a dynamic CGE-microsimulation analysis	Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Asia. Eds: J. Cockburn, Y. Dissou, J-Y. Duclos and L. Tiberti	Springer, 2013, 148 p.

Working Papers

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Public Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Dynamic CGE-microsimulation Analysis	2013-02-11	1423.79KB	0	0

Policy Briefs

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
	Public infrastructure and economic growth in Pakistan	2013-05-30	647.23KB	0	0

Final report

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2012-10-12	701.45KB	0	0

Proposal

	Title	Modified	Size	Comments	Recommendations
		2010-12-31	408.55KB	0	0