Virtual Institute Seminar on Trade and Poverty
Geneva, September 8-10, 2014
The Vi Seminar on Trade and Poverty held in Geneva September 8-10 gathered an audience of 75 participants representing academia, government and international organizations.
The seminar convened the 11 researcher-policymaker tandems that produced case studies examining the effect of trade on poverty in the context of a three-year capacity-building project sponsored by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the Government of Finland.
Seminar presentations
Monday, September 8
- Welfare impact of wheat export restrictions in
Argentina: Non-parametric analysis on urban households, Paula Calvo, Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
- Comments from policymaker partner, Raúl Alberto Auger, National Senate of Argentina
- Heterogeneous welfare effects of cotton pricing on households in Benin, Didier Yelognisse Alia, Benin (PhD candidate, University of Kentucky, United States)
- Comments from policymaker partner, Epiphane Adjovi, Projet de Renforcement des Capacités en Conception et Analyse des Politiques de Développement
- Overview of the Vi project on trade and poverty - Vlasta Macku, Chief, UNCTAD Virtual Institute
- Presentation of Trade policies, household welfare and poverty alleviation: Case studies from the Virtual Institute academic network, Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College, United States
Tuesday, September 9
- Welfare effects of a change in the trade policy regime for rice in Costa Rica, Carlos Umaña, Academia de Centroamerica, Costa Rica
- Comments from policymaker partner, Henry Benavides, Ministry of Foreign Trade
- Increasing the welfare effect of the agricultural subsidy programme for food crop production in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Marjan Petreski, University American College Skopje, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- Comments from policymaker partner, Nikica Mojsoska Blazevski, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy
- Distributional and poverty effects of agricultural trade liberalization: The case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christian Otchia, Democratic Republic of the Congo (PhD candidate, Nagoya University, Japan)
- Comments from policymaker partner, Charles Lusanda, Ministry of Economy
- The consumption effect of the renminbi
appreciation in rural China,
Dahai Fu, Central University of Finance and Economics,
People's Republic of China
- Comments from co-author/policymaker partner, Shantong Li, State Council of China
- Distributional impact of the 2008 rice crisis in the Philippines, George Manzano, University of Asia and the Pacific, the Philippines
- Trade liberalization in environmental products: Who benefits in Argentina - the poor or the non-poor households?, Maria Priscila Ramos, Universidad de la Empresa, Argentina
Wednesday, September 10
- Estimation of the pass-through and welfare effects of the tariff reduction for yellow corn in Peru between 2000 and 2011, Carmen Cecilia Matta Jara and Ana María del Carmen Vera Ganoza, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Peru
- The welfare impact in Nigeria of the Common External Tariff of ECOWAS: A distributional effects analysis, Olayinka Idowu Kareem, Nigeria (post-doctoral fellow, European University Institute, Italy)
- Comments from policymaker partner, Suleman Abedayo Audu, Permanent Mission of Nigeria, Nigeria Trade Office to the WTO
- Household welfare and pricing of rice: Does the Large-Scale Field Model matter for Viet Nam?, Ngoc Quang Pham, International Labour Organization Country Office for Viet Nam
- Comments from co-author/policymaker partner, Anh Hai La, Centre for Analysis and Forecasting of the Viet Nam Academy of Social Sciences