Working Paper

• Capital market
• Public debt
• Financial crisis

Report

View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. This work was carried out by the ISER in collaboration with the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales and UNU...

• Tax
• Government revenue
• Government spending policy

Journal Special Issue

The present paper serves as an introduction to this special issue providing a justification for, and linking and introducing to the articles that follow. A central message emanating from the papers included in this special issue is that it is not...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects
• Government spending policy

Report

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in...

• Tax
• Government revenue
• GHAMOD

Working Paper

Kenya’s external debt has continued to swell over the years, and despite the country meeting its debt commitment through regular servicing, this has been done at the expense of key social services such as health, education, water and sanitation...

• Public debt
• Government spending policy
• Healthcare

Working Paper

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution has as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U...

• Economic development
• Education
• Equality and inequality

Working Paper

This paper looks at public sector debt in developing countries, being concerned specifically with the relationship between aid inflows and the public sector borrowing requirement net of aid loans. After examining the public sector budget constraint...

• Public debt
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Fiscal policy

Working Paper

This paper analyses debt relief efforts by creditors to alleviate the debt burden of low-income countries. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative builds on traditional debt relief, and for the first time involves relief on multilateral...

• Public debt
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

The objective of this paper is to arrive at a better understanding of the implications of debt relief savings for poverty reduction in HIPC countries by focusing on one important channel of impact—human capital accumulation. Our simulation results...

• Public debt
• Education
• Government spending policy

Report

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in...

• Tax
• Government revenue
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

Three changes in conditionality of loans are proposed in this study, in order to improve the relations between developing country borrowers and international lending agencies, and make the international cooperative effort at development and stability...

• Public debt
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

• Public debt
• Fiscal policy
• Government spending policy

Report

View the latest ETMOD country report here . This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. This work was carried out by the Ethiopian Development Research Institute ( EDRI ) in collaboration with the University of Essex and...

• Tax
• Government revenue
• Government spending policy

Working Paper

This paper reviews income distribution in developing (and transition) countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax income distribution is less unequal in developing countries than it is in industrial countries. However, unlike industrial...

• Public expenditures
• Government spending policy
• Income distribution

Working Paper

The recent rise in inequality in the distribution of disposable income in many, although not all, countries has led to a search for explanations, particularly since for much of the postwar period falling inequality has been the norm. In OECD...

• Budget
• Equality and inequality
• Government spending policy

Report

View the latest UGAMOD country report here . This report documents UGAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Uganda. The report describes the different tax–benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions...

• SOUTHMOD
• UGAMOD
• Taxation