Social and Demographic Accounting

Examines developments in social and demographic accounting, drawing particularly on the work of Richard Stone, Nobel Laureate.

Geoffrey J. D. Hewings (Edited by), Moss Madden (Edited by)

9780521094054, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2009

256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg

"The editors are to be commended for a collection of well-rounded papers and diverse viewpoints on important topics in account-based economics and demographic models. The book is an excellent summary of state-of-the art methods in this field." Journal of Regional Science

This book provides an account of developments and applications of social accounts. It concentrates particularly on the methods of social accounting that Richard Stone, Nobel Laureate in Economics, developed and applied during his long and distinguished career. The contributors to the volume examine applications of social accounts in economics and demography, addressing issues of new formulations and specifications at the national and regional levels. Economic structure and issues of structural change are investigated within the context of social accounts matrices, and Linear Expenditure Systems are used to model population change and household consumption. The importance of social accounts matrices (SAM) in generating Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models and the enormous potential that both SAM and CGE models have for policy analysis are stressed.

1. Social accounting: essays in honour of Sir Richard Stone Geoffrey J. D. Hewings and Moss Madden
2. A SAM for Europe: social accounts at the regional level revisited Jeffrey I. Round
3. Interregional SAMs and capital accounts Maureen Kilkenny and Adam Rose
4. Social accounting matrices and income distribution analysis in Kenya Arne Bigsten
5. Structure of the Bangladesh interregional social accounting system: a comparison of alternative decompositions Geoffrey J. D Hewings, Michael Sonis, Jong-Kun Lee and Sarwar Jahan
6. Decompositions of regional input-output tables John H. Ll. Dewhust and Rodney C. Jensen
7. Consistency in regional demo-economic models: the case of the northern Netherlands Dirk Stelder and Jan Oosterhaven
8. A CGE solution to the household rigidity problem in extended input-output models Andrew B. Trigg and Moss Madden
9. Operationalising a rural-urban general equilibrium model using a bi-regional SAM Maureen Kilkenny
10. Combating demographic innumeracy with social accounting principles: heterogeneity, selection, and the dynamics of interdependent populations Andrei Rogers
11. A microsimulation approach to demographic and social accounting Martin Clarke
Bibliography
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Subject Areas: Development economics & emerging economies [KCM]