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Alan

the best (!) example of a small SD macro economic model of small economy
in the south Pacific area was developed by Eric Haywood and Bob
Cavana (!) at the New Zealand Planning Council in the mid 1980s.
while it doesnt contain all the variables you have identidfied it
does contain macro economic variables such as population, employment,
capital formation, total output, exports, imports, other balance of
payment items, some price indices etc.

we presented a simplified version of this model at the international
SD conference in San Diego in 1988, and more recently i presented a
brief comparison of the model scenarios with the actual economic
outcomes at the 1996 Conference of the Indian SD Society at
Bangalore (this paper is being further developed for presentation in
the SD stream of the Asia Pacific Operational Research Societies
(APORS) in Melbourne in December 1997.
Further details of the APORS conference can be found on the web site:
URL: http://www.maths.mu.oz.au/~worms/apors/apors.html

Bob Cavana
Bob.Cavana@vuw.ac.nz