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A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix for Malawi

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Title A 2007 Social Accounting Matrix for Malawi
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0EXZ8X
 
Creator Douillet, Mathilde
Pauw, Karl
Thurlow, James
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description
This paper documents a Malawian Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the year 2007. The SAM is based on newly estimated supply-use tables, national accounts, government budgets, and balance of payments. The SAM reconciles these data using cross-entropy estimation techniques. The final SAM is a detailed representation of Malawi’s economy. It separates 37 activities and commodities; 5 types of factors of production; and 10 representative household groups. Labor and household information is drawn
from a nationally representative household survey. The SAM also identifies government, investment and foreign accounts. It provides an ideal tool for economy-wide impact assessments, including SAM-based multiplier analysis and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling.

The 2007 SAM for Malawi was developed by the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD) at IFPRI. It was partly funded by USAID as part of their support to DSGD’s Malawi Country Strategy Support Program (Ma
SSP). A 2005 version of the Malawi SAM was first used to evaluate options for agricultural growth and poverty reduction.


The results of the Malawi case study is published in Diao, Xinshen; Thurlow, James; Benin, Samuel; and Fan, Shenggen. 2012. Strategies and priorities for African agriculture: Economywide perspectives from country studies. Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/127049
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
social accounting matrix
SAM
computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling
agricultural eonomics
economic aspects
case studies
rural development
poverty
state
agricultural growth
poverty reduction
Malawi
Southern Africa
Africa South of Sahara
Africa
 
Language English
 
Date 2012
 
Contributor IFPRI-KM
 
Relation Malawi, Social Accounting Matrix (SAM), 1998
 
Type Value-added secondary data