Income Distributional Impacts of Trade Policies in a Multi-Market Framework: A Case in Pakistan

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2000-04

Authors

Hudson, Darren
Ethridge, Don E.

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Southern Agricultural Economics Association

Abstract

The impacts of using export taxes as a price control in a multi-market framework are explored using the cotton and yarn sectors in Pakistan as examples. Results show that the export tax on cotton increased domestic consumption and decreased exports of cotton in Pakistan, transferring income from cotton producers to yarn spinners and the government. There was a social loss to Pakistan in the cotton sector. The export tax on cotton increased domestic yarn production, consumption, exports, and incomes of yarn spinners, but resulted in a large transfer (social loss) out of the yarn sector.

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Hudson, D., and D. Ethridge. "Income Distribution Impacts of Trade Policies in a Multi­Market Framework: A Case in Pakistan." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 32 (1, April 2000): 49-61.