Workshop on the MicroZAMOD update in Zambia

Members of the International Labour Organization, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD team, and the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) meet in Livingstone, Zambia to further develop Zambia's tax and benefit microsimulation model (MicroZAMOD). 

MicroZAMOD simulates the next-day impacts of policy reforms on household wellbeing, poverty rates, inequality levels, and the government budget. UNU-WIDER hosts, maintains, and updates MicroZAMOD as a part of the SOUTHMOD project and the Domestic Revenue Mobilization programme, to ensure it remains available to officials, analysts, policymakers, advocates, and researchers for commercial free research purposes. 

Participants gather at the workshop in Livingstone to advance the update of the MicroZAMOD model to the latest wave of survey data. The update will enable MicroZAMOD to run on the most recent (2022) Living Conditions Monitoring Survey (LCMS) conducted by ZAMSTATS. MicroZAMOD currently runs on the previous wave of household data (2015). Model validations using the new statistics and shared learning are additional objectives for this workshop.