Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1094:
Constructing a Social Accounting Matrix with a Distributional Focus ; The Case of Bolivia
Rainer Thiele and Daniel Piazolo
Abstract: This paper describes the construction of a Social
Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bolivia for the year 1997. Three distinctive
features render the SAM a useful starting point for distributional
analyses. First, production in the agricultural and services sector is
split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that
poverty is largely confined to the latter. Second, factor and household
accounts exhibit a high level of disaggregation, thus permitting the
monitoring of the factorial and personal income distribution. Finally, the
SAM contains a detailed system of accumulation balances which reveals the
distribution of assets among household groups.
Keywords: SAM, Structural Adjustment Programs, Poverty, Income Distribution, Bolivia; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: D57; O54; (follow links to similar papers)
49 pages, January 2002
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