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MOZMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection WeekThe Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 21-27 November 2022. During the week, on 25 November, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...
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Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief measures: a case for universalism?: Exploring scalability through targeted versus universalist approachesWith the expansion of social protection measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, considerations both old and new have surfaced regarding targeted versus universalist approaches...
Crisis Social protection TargetingBlog
Sales recovered faster from the pandemic than employment: Evidence from tax administrative and survey data in ZambiaLike most other countries, the government of Zambia introduced restrictions to control COVID-19, which considerably curtailed normal economic activity...
Competitiveness Debt FinanceWorking Paper
Social protection expansions during crisis and fiscal space: From ad hoc to durable solutions?This study provides a first attempt to contribute a large-scale assessment of whether crisis response as observed during the COVID-19 pandemic can serve as a feasible blueprint for creating durable solutions across countries...
Social protection Tax revenue COVID-19Journal Article
Informality and pension reforms in Bolivia: The case of Renta DignidadPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Social protection Informal work BoliviaWorking Paper
Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania: Exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future pathsTanzania has expanded its social protection framework significantly over the past decade, but the country continues to grapple with important gender inequalities...
Social protection Tanzania WomenWorkshop
Author workshop on tax-benefit systems and crisis
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SOUTHMOD presented at Tampere UniversityThe Global Health and Social Policy research unit of Tampere university organized an in person The Futures of Global Social Policy Workshop on 30 May 2022. UNU-WIDER Research Associate Jesse Lastunen and Research Assistant Enrico Nichelatti...
Working Paper
Microsimulation approaches to studying shocks and social protection in selected developing economiesThis paper calculates automatic stabilization in Ghana, South Africa, and Ecuador to explain income cushioning amid income and demand shocks. Fiscal policies within these countries are also stress tested to gauge welfare contingencies and insurance...
Developing countries Shocks Social protectionTechnical Note
Feasibility study: simulating the impacts of farm subsidies on poverty and inequality in African countriesAgricultural subsidies may have significant productive and distributional consequences, and policy-makers need to be able to assess these impacts as a part of the overall tax and benefit policy...
Agricultural policy Subsidies TaxationIn the media
SOUTHMOD Cash Plus dissemination event in the Zambian media
Zambia Tax-benefit microsimulation SDG17 Blog
The pandemic and Africa's social safety netThe COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation SOUTHMOD Sub-Saharan AfricaBlog
An African in Africa: New perspectives on travelling for research
Working for an international organisation presents a host of challenges, given the vast nature of tasks that one must surmount in a fast paced and changing environment...
Zambia Ghana AfricaWorking Paper
Dynamic impacts of lockdown on domestic violence: Evidence from multiple policy shifts in ChileWe leverage staggered implementation of lockdown across Chile’s 346 municipalities, identifying dynamic impacts on domestic violence...
Domestic violence Social protection COVID-19Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in TanzaniaThe virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in...