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Technical Note
Full-year adjustment for modelling COVID-19 policies in SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation modelsThis technical note presents a modelling approach used in Lastunen et al. (2021) where tax and benefit policies are scaled to reflect their actual duration during a single calendar year...
COVID-19 Tax-benefit microsimulation PovertyPresentation
SOUTHMOD presented at an SA-TIED Policy dialogue eventUNU-WIDER's SA-TIED programme organized an online policy dialogue event on 19 April. The topic of the event was ' Tax and benefit responses to COVID-19 in South Africa '. The event introduced research results of studies using the...
Policy seminar
SA-TIED policy dialogue – Tax and benefit responses to COVID-19 in South Africa
Presentation
SOUTHMOD presented at a UNU-WIDER conferenceUNU-WIDER organized a two-day online conference on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Africa on 11-12 February 2021. The preliminary results of an ongoing SOUTHMOD study were presented on the second day of the conference. The conference Development...
Blog
Studying COVID-19 through the lens of microsimulation: The role of tax and benefit policies in alleviating poverty and inequalityAs the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, developing nations are struggling to deliver economic assistance and public services to their citizens, under pressures of fiscal constraints and tax revenue losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policy Individual povertyProject
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2
Theme: Transforming states
SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyPolicy Brief
Social protection, government revenue and microsimulation in developing countriesSocial 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 microsimulationResearch Brief
Journal Article
Editorial - SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries
SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyJournal Special Issue
SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing CountriesSocial 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 microsimulationWorking 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 Microsimulation