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Working Paper
Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up

This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Development Plan...

Journal Article
Quantifying the Impacts of Expanding Social Protection on Efficiency and Equity

Part of Journal Special Issue SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

Policy Brief
Inequality dynamics in China

In the late 1970s, China embarked on a major programme of economic transition and reform. Since then, China’s economy has been transformed from a socialist planned economy to a predominately market economy characterized by a combination of state...

Research Brief
Financing the social cash transfer scale-up in Zambia
Working Paper
Inequality in China

In this paper we describe the major trends in China’s income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change, market...

Blog
From PhD Fellow to President: (of Colpensiones, Colombia’s public pension and social security administrator) – Juan Villa
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Four years ago, in 2014, Juan Villa spent three months at UNU-WIDER in our PhD Fellowship Programme. I spoke to him on a sunny September afternoon...

Journal Article
Trade, poverty, and social protection in developing countries

How do shifts in trade affect social protections for the poor? Although the fraction of the world's population considered the “extreme” poor has fallen by over one-half over the past quarter century, many of those lifted above the global poverty line...

Working Paper
Choices for spending government revenue

This paper examines a broad range of opportunities for addressing the pressing human development needs of low-income countries by using new oil, gas, and mineral discoveries. It assesses how much of an impact can be made on the funding gaps for...

Working Paper
Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity

A large informal sector is a challenge for developing countries building up social protection systems. Expanding social safety nets reduces poverty, but financing them can increase the tax burden, potentially reducing availability of formal sector...

Book Chapter
Choices for spending government revenue

Part of Book Extractive Industries

Project meeting
Cash Plus work in progress meeting

UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation team, in collaboration with the senior partners from Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI) and Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), as well as the...

26 April 2021
Online, Lusaka, Zambia
Past event
Presentation
Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä on social policy trajectories and women in Tanzania

The virtual conference Social Policy in Africa is organized 22-24 November 2021 by University of South Africa (UNISA) in the City of Tshwane in South Africa. On 22 November researchers Roosa Lambin and Milla Nyyssölä give a presentation in the...

22 November 2021
online, South Africa
Past event
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SOUTHMOD Cash Plus dissemination event in the Zambian media
Presentation
Jukka Pirttilä on social protection and taxation in times of crises

Helsinki Graduate School of Economics organises a weekly Development seminar series in Helsinki. On 6 April 2023 UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow Jukka Pirttilä presents the work in progress on the topic of Social protection and taxation...

6 April 2023
Economicum, Finland
Past event
Article
Feasibility of tax-benefit microsimulation in Ghana

The technical paper introduced in this article studies the feasibility of building a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana. The main Ghanaian tax and benefit policies are reviewed, followed by a discussion of data requirements. We conclude that the Ghana Living Standards Survey, wave 6 (GLSS6), forms a fairly promising basis for tax-benefit microsimulation. Ghana has a need not only for modelling, but also building a more comprehensive tax and benefit system.

Presentation
Social protection in development

Improving the social protection of the poor and vulnerable is a global concern and co-operation is needed at all levels. As part of efforts to build dialogue and to better support social protection in developing countries, Jukka Pirttilä presented on...

17 January 2017 – 18 January 2017
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Bonn, Germany
Past event
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