India and China contain about 40 percent of the earth's people. They are at an early stage of economic development, and their increasingly massive energy requirements will depend heavily on coal, a potent...
The authors assess the economic effects in Egypt, under various conditions, of restricting carbon dioxide emissions. They use their model to assess the sensitivity of these effects to alternative specifications:...
This paper reports on a new system called Hercules (High Level Economic Representation for the Construction and Use of Large Economy wide Systems), for developing multisectoral models. Hercules permits...
Nonlinear programming (NLP) algorithms are often designed for expert users and users from other fields can find them hard to work with. The paper argues that high level modeling systems can help researchers...
The steel industry is one of the cornerstones of the industrial sector of most countries. It has strong linkages to other activities, either as a provider of materials for further processing or as a supplier...
This study focuses on the likely long term trends in investment, production and trade patterns in the world aluminum industry. It first introduces the non specialist reader to the technical characteristics...
This article, On the Development of a General Algebraic Modeling System in a Strategic Planning Environment, was reprinted with permission from the 1982 volume of Mathematical Programming Study. It highlights...
This report introduces a new series of research publications, the planning of investment programs, by outlining a systematic approach of sectorwide investment analysis, placing special emphasis on complications...
This report introduces a new series of research publications, the planning of investment programs, by outlining a systematic approach of sectorwide investment analysis, placing special emphasis on complications...
This paper reports upon the results of an application of a planning methodology which was developed and adapted for practical use in the context of a World Bank research project entitled Programming in...