Empowering the modelling for Policy with the 2015 Social Accounting Matrix for Tanzania

Andrea El Meligi, Valeria Ferreira (), Victor Nechifor, Ole Boysen and Emanuele Ferrari
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Valeria Ferreira: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

No 2024-02, JRC Working Papers on Economic Analysis of Policies for Africa from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a comprehensive and economy-wide database that records data on all transactions taking place in an economy over a specific period, typically one year. The SAM serves two primary objectives. Firstly, it presents the economic structure and interrelationships among economic agents in the region under analyses. Secondly, it provides a database for analysing the economy's performance and simulating the effects of policy interventions through multisectoral linear models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. This report presents the 2015 SAM for Tanzania, offering a suitable database for implementing and evaluating the country's social and economic policies. The report outlines how to pass from a standard structure of the SAM to a detailed scheme by explaining all the accounts included, and covering key aspects of its construction and estimation. Considering the characteristics of the Tanzanian economy, this SAM shows a special structure to reflect the Home Production for Home Consumption (HPHC) issue and a high disaggregation of the agricultural sector. Furthermore, this SAM presents a high level of disaggregation by encompassing labour and household characteristics, considering regions, gender rural and urban areas, as well as income quintiles. The SAM is used as a database to perform a descriptive analysis of the Tanzanian economy.

Keywords: social accounting matrix; input-output analysis; multipliers; regional studies; country report; jobs creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 D33 D57 E16 E20 N17 N37 N47 N57 N67 N77 O55 Q17 Q18 Q52 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2024-01
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