A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a square matrix in which each account is represented by a row and a column. It provides a comprehensive picture of the economic transactions of an economy. Each cell shows the payment from the account of its column to the account of its row. Thus, the incomes of an account appear along its row and its expenditures along its column. For each account in the SAM, total revenue (row total) should be equal to total expenditure (column total). It should be noted that SAMs almost invariably are limited to flows; additional data or assumptions are needed to define stocks. Due to its accounting consistency and comprehensiveness in recording data, the SAM has…
Managing health care in an ageing world
by?Rob Vos, Richard Kozul-Wright, Ana Cortez, Simon?Cunningham and Hiroshi Kawamura
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UN/DESA Policy Brief, No. 2
Development in an Ageing World
The World Economic and Social Survey 2007 analyses the implications of ageing for social and economic development around the world. The ageing of the population offers both challenges and opportunities. Among the most pressing issues is the prospect of a smaller labour force having to support and increasingly larger older population. Paralleling increased longevity, changes in intergenerational relationships may affect the provision of care and income security for older persons particularly in developing countries where family transfers play a major role. Thus, societies must also ensure seeing to the particular needs of older populations in terms of the…
World Economic and Social Survey 2007
Downside risks to world economic growth call for concerted policy action
by?Rob Vos, Alex Izurieta and Clive Altshuler
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UN/DESA Policy Brief, No. 1
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