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"Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco" by Ravallion, Martin and Michael Lokshin Abstract We use Morocco’s national survey of living standards to measure the welfare impacts of the price changes attributed to various agricultural trade reform scenarios for de-protecting cereals — the country’s main foodstaple. We find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the aggregate. There are both gainers and losers and (contrary to past claims), the rural poor are worse off on average after de-protection. We decompose the aggregate impact on inequality into a “vertical” component (between people at different pre-reform welfare levels) and “horizontal” component (between people at the same prereform welfare). The vertical component of full de-protection is inequality reducing, while the (dominant) horizontal component is inequality increasing. The diverse impacts reflect a degree of observable heterogeneity in consumption behavior and income sources, with implications for social protection policies. |
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- Domestic policy analysis - Economic development - Africa (North) |
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