One platform, configured country by country
EDIS is designed for 52 African economies. A country platform is a configured instance: the models calibrated to that country’s accounts, its own data loaded and versioned, its institutions and users provisioned, and every result traceable to the dataset and model version that produced it.
Eight national data layers behind every answer
A configured country is the sum of these layers. Each is versioned, each carries its source and its year, and each is visible in the provenance record of any result that uses it.
Macroeconomic data
National accounts, prices, external sector, employment and the baseline the macro-fiscal framework is estimated on.
Fiscal data
Revenue, expenditure, debt, the budget classification and the medium-term fiscal framework the envelope is built from.
Sector data
Facility, school, network, generation and land registers, with the service norms and unit costs that turn plans into money.
Household data
Survey microdata for poverty, distribution and incidence analysis, and for calibrating the microsimulation.
GIS data
Population, settlements, roads, facilities, grids, catchments, hazard and project locations for spatial analysis and siting.
Climate data
Climate projections, hazard exposure and the parameters behind adaptation, mitigation and climate fiscal risk work.
Investment data
The public investment pipeline, project parameters and the appraisal conventions the country applies.
Budget data
Allocations, execution and outputs, so that what was budgeted can be compared with what was delivered.
Models calibrated to the country, not borrowed from one
Calibration ties the model estate to the country’s own statistics: the social accounting matrix and input–output structure, the fiscal accounts, the demographic projections, the sector registers and the survey data. The baseline is then validated against published outturns before any scenario is run.
Where a required dataset does not exist, EDIS records the gap and reports the limitation with the result. A missing register is stated, not imputed and presented as evidence.
Scope and status
- Economies in scope
- 52 African economies
- Demonstration country
- Utopia — a synthetic country used for the public demonstration
- Model services
- 21, across macro-fiscal, sector and cross-cutting layers
- Sectors
- 16
- Configuration
- Agreed with the institution at implementation
Figures in the public demonstration are illustrative and are labelled as demonstration data. A country is described as deployed only where that deployment is documented.
From a first question to a national configuration
Deployment tiers and implementation Government cohort training
See EDIS run on your country’s question
Tell us the question and the institution, and we run a demonstration against it with the data and model limitations stated.