Policy Brief

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

Journal Special Issue

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

Working Paper

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

News

How does raising income tax affect government revenue? What are the costs and benefits of implementing a state pension? Tax and benefit microsimulation is a useful technique for determining how policy changes affect the distribution of income and...

Working Paper

This paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model—NAMOD—which has been developed for use by government...

Project workshop

UNU-WIDER arranged a training course on building tax-benefit microsimulation models for researchers and data experts engaged in the new SOUTHMOD - Simulating tax and benefit policies for development project that aims to build new microsimulation...

Project

Theme: 1985-97

With the introduction of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), governments in Africa and other developing countries have been under great pressure to devise effective policies that will reduce poverty and...