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Kwabena Adu-Ababio

Research Assistant

Kwabena Adu-Ababio is a research assistant at UNU-WIDER, also pursuing a PhD at the University of Helsinki. His work at UNU-WIDER focuses on tax-benefit microsimulation models as well as Tax administration and organisation. His research interests include development economics, public economics, and applied microeconomics.

He has previously worked with the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana conducting research in experimental designs and impact evaluations.

14 articles, publications, projects...

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Blog

An African in Africa: New perspectives on travelling for research

by Kwabena Adu-Ababio
December 2021

Working for an international organisation presents a host of challenges, given the vast nature of tasks that one must surmount in a fast paced and changing environment...

Zambia Ghana Africa

Policy seminar

Distributional Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zambia

14 October 2021

Sarovar Premiere Hotel, online, Lusaka, Zambia

Past event

Project workshop

Work-in-progress meeting on tax research collaboration in Zambia

As part of the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, a work-in progress meeting was held online between UNU-WIDER, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research ( ZIPAR ) and...

12 October 2021

Online, Lusaka, Zambia

Past event

Policy Brief

Distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana

The first cases of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa were reported in March 2020, and the impact of the pandemic has since rippled through the world and Africa...

COVID-19 Income distribution Poverty

Policy Brief

Distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zambia

Zambia’s economic growth has been flattening over the past decade. In 2020 economic prospects further worsened, following the onset of the pandemic, rising debt, and the Eurobond default...

COVID-19 Income distribution Poverty

Report

SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.3

This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. The report describes the different tax-benefit policies in place, how the microsimulation model picks up these different provisions, and the database on which the model runs...

Taxation Government revenue GHAMOD

Working Paper

The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia...

COVID-19 Income distribution Poverty

Technical Note

Integration of indirect taxation to GHAMOD

This note, with emphasis on VAT and excise taxes, illustrates how indirect taxes are modelled in the context of GHAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana...

Taxes Microsimulation Value-added tax

Workshop

Third training on GHAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana

The third training on the use of GHAMOD , a tax-benefit microsimulation programme for Ghana, introduced participants to the latest version of the programme. Altogether 15 professionals and researchers working on tax and social protection issues in...

9 March 2021 – 11 March 2021

University of Ghana at Legon, Accra, Ghana

Past event

Report

SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v2.0

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...

Taxation Government revenue GHAMOD

Report

SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.3

View the latest GHAMOD country report here . This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana...

Tax Government revenue GHAMOD

Working Paper

Effects of an education reform on household poverty and inequality: A microsimulation analysis on the free Senior High School policy in Ghana

The level of income can be directly inferred from the level of education, making education an important variable as a key determinant of better livelihoods and poverty alleviation...

Education School reform Microsimulation