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SOUTHMOD presented at the EU Commission's Joint Research Centre

UNU-WIDER Research Fellow Pia Rattenhuber presents SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation work at EU Commission's Joint Research Centre's ( JRC ) biweekly seminar series on 3 March 2022. The seminar is open to all European Commission staff and...

3 March 2022
Online, Brussels, Belgium
Past event
Policy Brief
Social protection, government revenue and microsimulation in developing countries

Social protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions...

SOUTHMOD Microsimulation modelling Tax-benefit microsimulation
Journal Article
Editorial - SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

Part of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy
Journal Special Issue
SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

Social protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions...

SOUTHMOD Microsimulation modelling Tax-benefit microsimulation
Working Paper
Income redistribution in Latin America: A microsimulation approach

We analyse the effect of taxes and benefits on income distribution of six Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Venezuela...

Taxes Benefits Microsimulation modelling
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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries: A feasibility study for an extension of SOUTHMOD in Indonesia

This study aims to expand the use of tax-benefit microsimulation tools in Indonesia...

EUROMOD SOUTHMOD Microsimulation
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A tax-benefit model for Ghana
5 September 2016
University of Essex, Essex, United Kingdom
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