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Author workshop on tax-benefit systems and crisis
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SOUTHMOD country report Uganda - UGAMOD v1.8This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. It describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Viet Nam - VNMOD v2.3This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work has been carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management ( CIEM ) in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI...
Tax benefits Microsimulation Viet NamReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.5This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Taxation Government revenue GHAMODReport
SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v2.12This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) in collaboration with the project partners...
Taxation Government revenue MicroZAMODPresentation
Jukka Pirttilä on personal income tax reform in UgandaJukka Pirttilä , UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, gives a presentation at the Tax for Development webinar series on 5 April 2022 (CET). The webinar series is hosted by Chr. Michelsen Institute . The topic of Pirttilä's...
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SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.9This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...
Fiscal policy Revenues TaxationTechnical 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 TaxationProject
Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data
Theme: Transforming states
Taxation Administrative data Tax complianceWorking Paper
Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trendsThis paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa...
Fiscal states Sub-Saharan Africa TaxationWorking Paper
No taxation without informational foundation: On the role of legibility in tax state developmentThis paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity...
State capacity Information Fiscal capacityWorking Paper
No taxation without property rights: Formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan AfricaThe arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is under-studied...
Property rights Taxation Sub-Saharan AfricaProject workshop
Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in ZambiaAs part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) and...
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Understanding taxpayer behaviour better – New data research collaboration in Zambia
Taxation Tax administration data Zambia Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.3View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...
Taxation Government revenue GHAMODReport
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v2.0This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits Microsimulation