Workshops

During each workshop, the coordinating team and the country teams met to provide an overview of the objectives and the status of the project, as well as to provide theoretical and practical training on how to compile the information, make estimations, and run the model. These activities included:

1. Overview and status of the project       

2. Presentation of social accountability matrix       

3. Theoretical training on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling

4. Introduction to General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS)               

5. Running the CGE model in GAMS

• Defining closure rules 
• Running simulations and obtaining results

6. Practical exercises

7. Working with data

• Identifying requirements
• Compiling and estimating variables

8. How to make adjustments to the model and run additional simulations 

Workshops:

• Quito, Ecuador (May 22-24, 2008)
• San José, Costa Rica (November 26-28, 2008)
• Managua, Nicaragua (April 27-29, 2009)
• Mexico City, Mexico (November 18-19, 2009)