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As the use of global and national computable general equilibrium (CGE) models has become more widespread, most policies still remain at the regional or sub-national level. This level of disparity requires an approach that bridges the gap between national results and sub-national policies. The study combines a general equilibrium model with geographical information to spatially map the effects of trade liberalization on the agricultural sector. It tries to bridge this gap by merging the results of a CGE analysis with spatial geo-referenced data at the municipal level by means of GIS techniques. The paper provides a methodology that combines micro-level information with the results of a CGE model and presents them in a spatial way. This methodology is applied to a simultaneous free trade agreement (FTA) between Andean countries and the United States, and its impacts on Ecuador's agricultural sector.
