For Afghanistan, the dual prospect of declining donor support and high ongoing security spending over the medium term keeps the government budget tight. This paper uses a general equilibrium model to capture the security-development tradeoff facing the government in its effort to rehabilitate...

The Spring 2003 Quarterly Bulletin contained a report on modelling and forecasting at the Bank of England by Adrian Pagan. This article is a postscript to Professor Pagan's original report, and covers the introduction of the Bank's new macroeconomic model (the Bank of England Quarterly Model, or...