INTERNATIONAL CGE MODELING TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEW DELHI

About the training

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the CGIAR Initiative on Foresight, in partnership with the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM), the Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI), and ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (ICAR-NIAP), successfully concluded today the weeklong ‘International Capacity Building Program on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling for Economic Policy Analysis’ at the Division of Agricultural Economics, ICAR-IARI Campus, Pusa, New Delhi.

The program, held from April 29 to May 3, 2024, brought together participants from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, comprising researchers and policy analysts with an economics background. It provided practical training on CGE modeling, with a focus on IFPRI’s Standard CGE model, equipping attendees with essential skills to analyze diverse policy issues using advanced modeling methodologies.