African Union Member States' Social Accounting Matrices
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.
SAMs serve two primary objectives:
Firstly, they show the economic structure and interrelationships among all economic agents in the region under analyses.
Secondly, they provide 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.
The Pan African Network for Economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) estimates and updates SAMs for several African Countries (Eleven countries covered, ongoing development)
