A General Equilibrium Model of the Lao Economy
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This paper describes LaoGEM (Lao General Equilibrium Model), a 20 sector, 400 household general equilibrium model of the Lao economy, constructed specifically for the analysis of the effect of road improvement on rural poverty incidence in Laos. Unless otherwise stated, the database of the model refers to the year 2002. These features are relatively standard for comparative static general equilibrium models, except for the treatment of the household sector.
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