A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a comprehensive and economy-wide database recording data about all transactions between economic agents in a certain economy during a certain period of time. SAMs have a triple use: on the one hand, they offer in themselves a detailed description of the...

The concept of 'bioeconomy' is gathering momentum in European Union (EU) policy circles as a sustainable model of growth to reconcile the goals of continued wealth generation and employment with bio-based sustainable resource usage. Unfortunately, an economy-wide quantitative assessment covering...

This is the first time that European Regional Policy will not consider Andalusia as one of the Objective 1 priority areas. Thus, this paper analyzes the economic impact of the withdrawal of a large amount of European Structural Funds from the Andalusian economy in the 2014–2020 Community...

Ghana shows remarkable differences in employment and welfare between the southern and northern regions. The promotion of policy focus on the development of the northern regions requires the elaboration of specific databases describing the regional economies. Hence, this work outlines the...

The quantitative assessment of agricultural and rural development policies requires consolidated, multi-sector databases, which take the economic heterogeneity between regions into account. Regionalized Social Accounting Matrices represent a suitable and convenient data format for such a...