GTAP Resources: Resource Display
| GTAP Resource #4717 |
|---|
|
"Modelling the Impacts of Large New Projects in Saudi Arabia" by Roos, Louise and Philip Adams Abstract The Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) has been contracted by the National Industrial Clusters Development Program (NICDP, Saudi Arabia) to build a CGE model of the Saudi Arabia economy designed to assist the NICDP to: 1. screen projects in a wide range of industry areas such as metals manufacturing, chemical refining, vehicle assembly and pharmaceutical formulation; 2. evaluate alternative policy options across a range of fiscal instruments (e.g., phasing out of fuel incentives) and ideas to stimulate regions and to stimulate new industry clusters; 3. generate information which would allow the NICDP to better track progress in economic diversification and productivity enhancements; and 4. produce medium and long term detailed economic forecasts on relevant indicators (e.g., for various labour skill requirements). CGE models explicitly model and link industries with each other and other economic agents through market clearing equations. Also, CGE models capture the disaggregated nature of an economy and are rich in sector-specific data. This makes CGE models a powerful tool for screening projects and evaluating new policies and policy changes. For example, to screen a new petrochemical project, initially the NICDP requires data on operating costs, likely sources of revenue, borrowing requirements and ownership (foreign versus local). These data enable an initial assessment of the value of the project to the Saudi Arabia economy. But that assessment does not account for: • flow on effects to other industries (supplying inputs to the new refinery and receiving the new refinery output); • generalised indirect effects via changes in the exchange rate (if the project has large export potential) and via changes in wage relativities as demand for some occupations rises and demand for other occupations falls; • the fiscal implications of the new project – perhaps increased taxation receipts offset, potentially, by increased government incentive payments to th... |
| Resource Details (Export Citation) | GTAP Keywords | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
- Baseline development - Dynamic modeling |
| Attachments |
|---|
|
If you have trouble accessing any of the attachments below due to disability, please contact the authors listed above.
Public Access No documents have been attached. Restricted Access No documents have been attached. Special Instructions Revised paper with simulation design and results will be upload at a later stage |
| Comments (0 posted) |
|---|
|
You must log in before entering comments.
No comments have been posted. |
Last Modified: 9/15/2023 1:05:45 PM
