Yemen Social Accounting Matrix, 2012

This data set contains the most detailed, openly accessible Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the Republic of Yemen to date. In addition to allowing for “standard” socio-economic analysis common for SAMs - like assessing the linkages between production, factor income distribution and households’ incomes and expenditures – this SAM makes detailed economic assessments at the subnational level, by farm and non-farm rural households and at detailed agricultural subsector levels, possible. The construction of the SAM is described in Al-Riffai, AlHawri, Al-Bataly, Breisinger, Wiebelt (2013). Building a Social Accounting Matrix for Yemen, 2012. International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC. It is the authors’ hope that this SAM database can make a contribution to evidence-based policy making that helps to further reduce poverty and food insecurity in the Republic of Yemen.