Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion: A CGE Analysis for Mozambique

Gender Implications of Biofuels Expansion in Africa: The Case of Mozambique

Biofuels, cropland expansion, and the extensive margin

Background: Recently, several papers have assessed land use consequences of biofuel expansion. In the absence of empirical evidence, these papers assigned subjective values to extensive margin (productivity of new croplands over productivity of existing croplands). Methods: This paper fills the gap in this area and provides a new data set which estimates land productivity at 0.5° × 0.5° (longit...

Biofuels, Poverty, and Growth: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Mozambique

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Modeling Biofuels Policies in General Equilibrium: Insights, Pitfalls and Opportunities

Over the past decade, biofuels production in the EU and US has boomed – much of this due to government mandates and subsidies. The US has now surpassed Brazil as the world’s leading producer of ethanol. The economic and environmental impact of these biofuel programs has become an important question of public policy. Due to the complex intersectoral linkages between biofuels and crops, livestock...

Macroeconomic Impacts of Export Barriers in a Dynamic CGE Model

A large economic literature discusses the implications of export sanctions for a variety of states around the world. This paper investigates the macro-level consequences of imposing oil export barriers on an oil exporting country. We employ a large real financial computable general equilibrium for Iran. The model is calibrated based on 1999 Social Accounting Matrix for the economy of Iran inc...