iSimulate – collaborative economic modeling
Macroeconomic modeling might not be everyone's cup of tea but for those practitioners of the "dismal science", computer-based economic modeling is essential. David and Gauresh are two World Bank staff who work with economic data. In a kind of internal "grassroots" programming effort they've built a web interface to access the World Bank's economic simulation models. The nice twist is that they plan to offer it free to anyone who wants to use it. I met them this winter and I've been following their progress for several months now. Today I learned that the site is now on the web.
Some blurbage about iSimulate:
- Policy makers, students and others in developing countries are able to simulate domestic policies, analyze the impact of international developments and do cross-country analyses from remote locations.
- It is possible to organize collaborative forecasts and analyses of the world economy with teams of individuals spread across the globe.
- Provides a user-friendly and standardized interface to often complicated macroeconomic modeling tools.
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You can get prebuilt GeoRSS feeds or build them yourself in ShapeWiki.
Continue readingThe IMF Starts Blogging
The International Monetary Fund launched its very first blog yesterday; the Public Financial Management blog. Some blurbage on this new blog:
The PFM blog aims at sharing the IMF staff's vast experience with PFM practitioners in Ministries of Finance and other fiscal agencies, academia, students, non-governmental organizations, as well as with the general public. It will also feature current news, resources and ideas about public financial management systems, their operation and improvement, and their contribution to economic growth and achieving national objectives, including economic and financial stability.
There will probably be more to come. The new managing director of the IMF (Dominique Strauss-Kahn) has been blogging since last year. He even set up a blog for his campaign to become MD.
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