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SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.0

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
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GHAMOD launch and training: A tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana
by Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Robert Darko Osei, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber June 2017

Better social protection coverage and greater benefits in developing countries would certainly be welcomed by many. More and better forms of social...

  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
  • GHAMOD
  • SOUTHMOD
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SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

Social protection has attracted increasing interest in developing countries in recent decades and policies have been initiated in all developing regions. Cash transfer policies are already in place in many African countries, but their coverage is...

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  • Microsimulation modelling
  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
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Editorial - SOUTHMOD: Modelling Tax-benefit Systems in Developing Countries

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

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  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
  • Tax-benefit policy
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SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.3

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
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SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.0

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
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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in developing countries

This study aims to expand the use of tax-benefit microsimulation tools in Indonesia. In particular, it reviews the feasibility of expanding SOUTHMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model being applied in developing countries that was developed based...

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  • Microsimulation
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Developing a microsimulation model for Mozambique – from inception to impact
by Vanda Castelo, José Cardoso, Finório Castigo, Gemma Wright November 2018

The tax-benefit microsimulation model developed for Mozambique, MOZMOD, has proved to be valuable in analysing the impacts and budget implications of...

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Income under-reporting and tax evasion

Personal income tax is attracting more attention from the Vietnamese government, which has been looking for a way to reinforce its budget revenue. Although this tax plays an increasing role, representing 7.3 per cent of the revenue expected in 2018...

  • Income inequality
  • Income under-reporting
  • Permanent income
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SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.2

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...

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SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.0

View the latest MOZMOD country report here . This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the...

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  • Revenue
  • Taxation
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SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v2.0

View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here . This 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...

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SOUTHMOD Country Report Viet Nam - VNMOD v1.0

View the latest VNMOD country report here . This report documents VNMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Viet Nam. This work was carried out by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) in collaboration with KU Leuven and the project...

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Learning from the ʻbestʼ

Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia...

  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
  • Tax-benefit policy
  • Microsimulation
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Financial disincentives to formal work

The aim of this paper is to quantify the financial cost that informal workers would incur in the event of entering formality, accounting for potential earnings gains upon entry. To do so, we use representative microdata from Ecuador and Colombia...

  • Formalization
  • Informal sector
  • Informality
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Microsimulation analysis of the impact of indirect tax benefits on income distribution and poverty alleviation in Tanzania

This paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8. The simulations model two indirect tax reforms involving changes to the...

  • Income distribution
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  • Tax-benefit microsimulation
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