Poverty Analysis Macroeconomic Simulator (PAMS)

• a standard aggregate macroeconomic framework (taken from any macro-consistency model) that projects GDP, national accounts, the national budget, the balance of payments, price levels etc. in aggregate consistent accounts
• a labor-market model with labor categories broken down by skill level and economic sectors, whose total production is consistent with that of the macroeconomic framework
• an income-growth simulator model that uses the labor model's results to simulate the income growth for a representative individual from each labor category

This tool was prepared by the Research Department of the World Bank as part of the "Toolkit for Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies," available below.

More information on PAMS:

• Pereira da Silva, Luiz A., B. Essama-Nssah and Issouf Samaké, "A PAMS: Linking Household Surveys with Macro Models," Draft, August 2002 (470kb PDF)
• Pereira da Silva, Luiz A., B. Essama-Nssah and Issouf Samaké, "Linking Aggregate Macro-Consistency Models to Household Surveys: (PAMS)," from Toolkit for Evaluating the Poverty and Distributional Impact of Economic Policies, 2003. (154kb PDF)
• PAMS Beta (5.01mb ZIP)
• Essama-Nssah, B. and Issouf Samaké, "Simulating the Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Inequality with PAMS," presentation, February 2004. (223kb PDF)

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