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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...
Journal Article
A Role for Universal Pension?: Simulating Universal Pensions in Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South AfricaThis article is from a forthcoming UNU-WIDER special issue of the International Journal of Microsimulation We use four novel, cross-country comparable tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ecuador, Ghana, Tanzania and South Africa to analyse ex ante...
Old-age benefit Poverty SOUTHMODWorking Paper
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 microsimulationBlog
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 JobsWorking Paper
Inequality in Mexico: Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise...
Labour income Inequality Top incomesWorking Paper
The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countriesThis paper assesses the effects of public policies on income taxes and benefits in six African countries...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Poverty Income inequalityWorking Paper
The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in ChinaBy using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988–2013, this paper investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China...
Income inequality Poverty Gini decompositionWorking Paper
Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in GhanaThe level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation...
Education School reform microsimulationPolicy Brief
Growth, employment and poverty in Latin AmericaSome questions have been present since the very first days of development economics but have gained increased attention in recent years: Has economic growth resulted in gains in standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labor market ...
Economic growth Employment PovertyWorking Paper
My journey through the history of development economicsThis paper is essentially autobiographical and describes Erik Thorbecke’s journey through the history of development economics between the 1950s and the present. The paper consists of four parts...
Development doctrine Inequality Poverty