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In order to reduce poverty you must be able to measure it...
Poverty Measurement (Poverty) Multidimensional poverty measurementResearch Brief
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How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights...
Global Human rights Income inequalityResearch Brief
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A Role for Universal Pension?: Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South AfricaWe use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa to analyse ex ante the expansion of a universal old-age pension in a static setting...
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODWorking Paper
The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidenceThe North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al...
Income inequality non-farm employment PovertySeminar
Vincenzo Salvucci presents at the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique 2019 seminar seriesVincenzo Salvucci, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen, will present a seminar on 13 March 2019 at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The seminar is titled Vulnerabilidade às Calamidades Naturais: Avaliação do...
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Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up: A tax benefit microsimulation analysis based on MicroZAMODThis paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Devel...
Economic inequality Poverty Social cash transfersWorking Paper
Modelling value-added tax (VAT) in South Africa: Assessing the distributional impact of the recent increase in the VAT rate and options for redress through the benefits systemUsing SAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for South Africa, this paper examines the joint distributional impact of the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate and increases in benefit amounts in 2018...
value-added tax microsimulation RedistributionIn the media
Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme interviewed in Dimensions magazineUNU-WIDER research fellow Vincenzo Salvucci, and Finório Castigo, a specialist from the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique, were interviewed by Dimensions magazine on multidimensional poverty measurement. The article was published...
Mozambique Multidimensional poverty measurement PovertyNews
Researchers from the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme contribute to the book Challenges of Mozambique 2018The Institute for Social and Economic Studies ( IESE ) launched the ninth edition of the book Desafios para Moçambique 2018 (Challenges of Mozambique 2018) on 8 November 2018 in Maputo, Mozambique. The book has 18 chapters divided into four...
Mozambique Measurement (Poverty) PovertyProject
Transforming informal work and livelihoods
Theme: Current programme
Informality Self-employment PovertyWorking Paper
Learning from the ʻbestʼ: The impact of tax-benefit systems in AfricaRedistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending...
Tax-benefit microsimulation tax-benefit policy microsimulationPolicy Brief
Inequality in Mexico: On the rise againSince 1989, inequality in Mexico has risen, declined, and risen again. The evolution of labour income inequality is at the core of this pattern...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesBlog
The ins and outs of African industrialization: UNU-WIDER provides open access to a wealth of information
The question ‘why is there so little industrialization in Africa?’ has been a key focus of UNU-WIDER researchers and research partners for the last decade...
Industrialization Poverty Jobs