UNU-WIDER Designing Africa's Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options

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Designing Africa's Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options

Project name/title

Designing Africa's Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options

Year:

2006

Theme:

Africa's Economic Development

Abstract:

This project began in 2004 and continues in 2006-2007. It has constructed and applied microsimulation models for four African countries: Botswana, Uganda, Nigeria and Cameroon. Using information contained in national level household income and expenditure surveys to analyse tax and/or social transfer programmes, the country teams developed microsimulation models that can be applied to concrete policy challenges facing each country. The models run on a user-friendly interface, developed in 2005, that make them more easily accessible to policymakers. The models will be presented to researchers and policymakers in Africa. As a second phase of the project, it hopes to offer development of the microsimulation models to additional African countries and also to develop macroeconomic models for Bostwana, Cameroon, Nigeria and Uganda that will link to the existing microsimulation models developed during the first phase of the project.

Director:

• Asghar Adelzadeh
  Project Director

Assistant:

• Lorraine Telfer-Taivainen 
  Secretary to the Director 

Workshops

• 15 May 2009 UNU-WIDER Research Project Workshop: Designing African Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options
• 4 December 2008 UNU-WIDER Training Workshop - Designing Africa's Poverty Strategies: Linking Country Macro and Microsimulation Models
• 14 May 2007 Project workshop on Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options
• 16 April 2007 Project workshop on Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options
• 22 January 2007 Project workshop on Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options
• 15 January 2007 Project workshop on Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options
• 7 November 2006 Project workshop on Designing Africa’s Poverty Strategies: Expanding Local Capacity to Simulate Policy Options

Content:

This project has constructed and applied microsimulation models for four African countries: Botswana, Uganda, Nigeria and Cameroon.