Abstract
The paper describes the rationale for the construction and use of a simple consistency model of the Zimbabwean economy that incorporates an input-output matrix. The model is designed to investigate alternative industrial strategies and their consequences for the balance of payments, consumption, and overall GDP growth over a period up to 20 years. Fully menu-driven, it allows completely interactive scenario development by inexperienced planners. In an early, simple form, it ran on an Acorn BBC computer, but the final version requires an MS DOS machine with 256K RAM or more (Nimbus PC, IBM PC, or compatible).1 Keywords: consistency, economic, heuristic, input-output, language, model, Pascal, planning, scenario, strategy, simulation.
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