Version 8.19 (March 14th, 2024)

Version 8.19 (March 14th, 2024)

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You can download IFs Version 8.19 at IFs 8.19.

Interface Updates

• Fix to Drop existing tables in iFsDataImport.db file when having special character like %. Also allowing Years to be in a different column when using Format 2. Removing tables from ifsDataImport.db when clicking Cancel in View Data form.
• Fix to Scenario tree when customizing sfintlwaradd.
• Fix refreshing scenario results from cache (Clear session dataframes and files when saving a run file).
• Fix on Population and Education pyramids, they were not changing scenarios.
• Update to Poverty Display to use 2017 PPP levels.
• Fix incompatibility of Trillion and Billion dollars in graph title.

Model Updates

• Adding Exogenous forecast for Corruption and Government Effectiveness.
• Handling negatives for COOKSTOVES(ModernFuel) when using negatives in cookstoveadd parameter.
• Value Added to Labor data reconciliation using new GTAP 11 data.
• Fix absolute exogenous type for GDPPCP when base year doesn't exist in table.
• Kiribati is now included in HealthDetailedDeathsCtry, no need to use Tonga as a proxy anymore

Data Updates

• 40 Tables inserted & updated
  • 7 energy prod & reserve updated, and elec tables from BP Energy Outlook.
  • 21 IHME tables updated, including demographic indicators, health related indicators, and social violence indicators.
  • 10 new tables, Gov effectiveness and corruption by SSPs. Scales are the same to variables in IFs (0-10 & 0-5).
  • Manually fixed 0s in GovtEdPub%GDP (replaced with newly released values from WDI).
  • Manually fixed column names in PopMigration.
  • Data source entries for 55 SSP tables are now updated.
• Notes: HealthDetailedDeathsCtry in the IFs.db is also updated.