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A 1991 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) For Zimbabwe

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Title A 1991 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) For Zimbabwe
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8QFXOE
 
Creator Thomas, Marcelle
Bautista, Romeo M.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The 1991 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Zimbabwe that we document in this paper is intended to provide benchmark data for economy-wide analysis under the MERRISA Project. Its construction is based on a three-step process: (1) building a
macro SAM that presents the aggregative features of the Zimbabwean economy and serves as a control matrix for the micro SAM; (2) disaggregation into a complete but unbalanced micro SAM; and (3) balancing the disaggregated and complete micro SAM using the cross-entropy approach. The macro SAM entries are based on aggregates from a recent, significant revision of the Zimbabwe national accounts for 1991. The structure of the micro SAM is a disaggregated version of the macro SAM. The outcome is an
88 by 88 matrix that includes 36 activities, 27 commodities, 9 factors of production (4 labor , 3 capital, and 2 land categories), 5 households groups, and one account each for enterprises, government, investment/saving, and rest-of-the-world. Among the significant features of the Zimbabwean economy that are explicitly taken into account in the SAM structure are
the importance of agriculture, the distinction between smallholder and large-scale commercial farms, home consumption by smallholder farm households, and the large marketing margins that reflect inefficiencies in trade and transport infrastructure.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
social accounting matrix
SAM
ZIMBABWE
SOUTHERN AFRICA
AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA
AFRICA
 
Language English
 
Date 1991
 
Contributor IFPRI-KM
 
Type Value-added secondary data