On this page, we provide links to selected other resources relevant to country-level -development strategy analysis with a focus on MDGs as well as links to other websites with more materials.

Selected resources

Dervis, Kemal, Jaime de Melo, and Sherman Robinson. 1982. General Equilibrium Models for Development Policy World Bank Research Publication, Report no. 10173. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.

Francois, Joseph F., and Kenneth A. Reinert. 1998. Editors. Applied Methods for Trade Policy Analysis: A Handbook. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Lofgren, Hans, Rebecca Lee Harris, and Sherman Robinson, with assistance from Moataz El-Said and Marcelle Thomas. 2002. A Standard Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model in GAMS. Microcomputers in Policy Research, Vol. 5. Washington, D.C.: IFPRI.

Lofgren, Hans. 2003. Exercises in General Equilibrium Modeling Using GAMS and Key to Exercises in CGE Modeling Using GAMS. Microcomputers in Policy Research, Vol. 4. Washington, D.C.: IFPRI.

Robinson, Sherman and Hans Lofgren. 2008. Economy-Wide Models and Poverty Analysis. Presentation delivered by Sherman Robinson at the WIDER Conference “Frontiers of Poverty Analysis,” held in Helsinki, Finland, September 26-27.

van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique. 2005. Prototype Model for a Single Country Real Computable General Equilibrium Model. Development Prospects Group, World Bank.

Links to external organizations

EcoMod Network. The Network, which is global, promotes model-based policy analysis. Among other things, website provides information about its activities, including courses and conferences.

General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS). MAMS and many other CGE models are written in GAMS, a system for mathematical programming and simultaneous equation modeling. The website of the GAMS Development Corporation provides access to documentation, manuals and the software (a license is required to be able to solve anything but small models).

Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). GTAP is a global collaborative network that promotes model-based policy analysis and database development, both global and at the country level. Its website is an excellent source of data, documents and research outputs.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The IFPRI website provides access research in the food policy area. Of particular interesty for economywide modeling are the Discussion Papers of the Trade and Macroeconomics Division and IFPRI's repository of Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs).

Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network. PEP promotes research by developing country researchers working to reduce poverty. Its Modeling and Policy Impact Analysis (MPIA) network provides access to working papers, training materials, and software related to country-level macro-micro analysis.

Thomas Rutherford, of the University of Colorado in Denver, has developed some programming tools to facilitate GAMS-based modeling.

United Nations' provides a gateway to its work on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Links to related World Bank materials

Data and Research. Entry point to main World Bank unit for development economics, divided into Data, Research, and Prospects.

Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network. Entry point to the Bankwide network, divided into Poverty Reduction, Economic Policy and Debt, Public Sector Governance, Trade, Gender and Development, and Global Development Architecture.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Data and links to resources on the MDGs.

Global Monitoring Report. Annual report on the MDGs produced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Information by countries and regions. Search engine providing access to World Bank documents classified by country and region.

The site Tools and Methods for PSIA (Poverty and Social Impact Analysis) provides information about selected tools for the analysis of the impacts of reforms.

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