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Trade liberalization and South African manufacturing: Looking back with dataThis paper provides a retrospective assessment of the effects of trade policies on South African manufacturing since the transition to democracy, examining the differences and commonalities in the views of economists in favour of and against an accel...
Trade policy Manufacturing Trade liberalizationProject
UNU-WIDER Summer School
Theme: Current programme
Capacity building data Quantitative researchBlog
Revenue data like you’ve never seen it before: Introducing the GRD Explorer
Let’s face it, data is important. It sits at the core of almost everything that we in the development economics research community do. However, the way in which we use, share, understand, interpret and present data is more important still...
Government revenue Taxation dataWorking Paper
Assessing the quality of the income data used in SAMOD, a South African tax-benefit microsimulation modelIn this paper we explore the income data in two surveys that underpin a South African tax-benefit microsimulation model...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distribution dataJournal Article
New data, new approaches and new evidence: A policy synthesisPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Job flows, worker flows and churning in South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis data South AfricaJournal Article
Markups and concentration in South African manufacturing sectors: An analysis with administrative dataPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Understanding manufactured exporters at the firm-level: New insights from using SARS administrative dataPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Importing and firm export performance: New evidence from South AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Total factor productivity in South African manufacturing firmsPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Introduction to the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panelPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Article
Introduction: Firm level analysis with administrative dataPart of Journal Special Issue Firm level analysis using administrative record data
Firm-level analysis South Africa dataJournal Special Issue
Firm level analysis using administrative record dataThis special issue focuses on a collaborative effort between the National Treasury and the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to employ administrative record data from SARS for economic policy analysis...
Firm-level analysis South Africa Economic policyWorking Paper
Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: The ICTD/UNU-WIDER GRD 2017The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policymakers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes...
Tax Fiscal policy dataBlog
Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to collect tax and other revenue is key for developing countries as they move forward...
Tax Development dataBlog
Opening the vault: Data, research, and improved policymaking in South Africa
Policymakers often work in the dark, as they try to make real impact on people’s lives. If you don’t have good data, being worked on by good researchers, it can be hard to know whether efforts are truly making a difference...
Tax data firms