Join the network
Blog
Data for better policies: Introducing the Government Revenue Dataset 2020
Thanks to the updated version of the Government Revenue Dataset ( GRD ) we are now able to gain a clear picture of tax and other revenue trends in over 190 countries over the past four decades, now up until 2018...
Government revenue Taxation DataWorking Paper
Data, global development, and COVID-19: Lessons and consequencesThe COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development...
data science Data Artificial intelligenceProject
SOUTHMOD - simulating tax and benefit policies for development Phase 2
Theme: Transforming states
SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulation tax-benefit policyWorking Paper
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 liberalization
Blog
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 policy