CONSULTANCY

We consult in development of supply user tables and apply various methods to ensure that the tables developed are balanced both from the supply and end use.

Using various data sources including the supply use tables, fiscal data provided by the Ministry of Finance, balance of payments provided by the central banks, household surveys and other surveys such as enterprise surveys, we can support you to develop the Social Accounting Matrix and balance it using the various methods such as cross entropy methods

Using data from land use, water use, energy use and other resources we can extend the standard Social Accounting Matrix which is important for analysis of Climate Change issues and further development of Climate related CGEs

We provide consultancy services in development of basic CGE models which can be used to analyze various aspects of fiscal issues and trade policy related questions. These can be static models extended to simple recursive dynamic models

We provide consultancy services for more advanced CGEs ideal for planning services. These are CGEs that can provide policy makers on the implications of investing in the various sectors of the economy such as education, health, road and energy infrastructure, water for production and the implications of these policy choices on growth

We support countries in calibrating models to extended versions of Social Accounting Matrices that capture environmental variables. These type of models can be used for determining the transition path required to meet the NDCs

We support countries to develop macro-econometric models originating from the basic Financial Programming model that covers the real, fiscal, balance of payments and monetary sector. Using excel as a front end for keeping the Macroeconomic framework data, Eviews is used as a back end for estimating behavioral equations as well as defining model objects with all the key identities to. Eviews is also utilized to undertake various simulations under different policy scenarios

We provide consultancy services for forecasting government revenues using high frequency data. Using advanced methods to identify structural breaks and understanding the revenue data, this is a critical step for Government to accurately forecast its cashflows based on well estimated models

Advanced structural macroeconometric models are a lot more challenging under Eviews as they involve rational expectation variables. We therefore provide consultancy services to implement large structural macroeconomic models using IRIS in the Matlab environment

We provide consultancy services in the area of DSGE modelling using Dynare in the Matlab/Julia environment. These models can be used to assess the implications of undertaking fiscal or monetary policy shocks

We provide consultancy services in the areas of estimating various forms of poverty, income distribution and well as incidence analysis as a result of changes such as tax or expenditure policies