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Rodrigo Oliveira
Research Associate
Rodrigo Oliveira is a Research Associate at UNU-WIDER working on tax-benefit microsimulation models. His research interests are development economics and applied economics, focusing on education, health, poverty, and inequality.
He is on a leave of absence from his previous appointment as an economics professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) - Brazil. He has also worked as a research associate at Cidacs and CLEAR - FGV and as Coordinator of the Laboratory of Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies (LAPPE) at UFBA.
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The impacts of studying abroad: Evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship program in BrazilThis paper investigates the impact of the Science without Borders ( Ciência sem Fronteiras – CSF) programme on participants’ post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship...
Education BrazilWorking Paper
The role of social protection and tax policies in cushioning crisis impacts on income and poverty in low- and middle-income countries: A rapid scoping reviewIn the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries enacted tax and social protection measures to help mitigate the economic hardship faced by individuals and households...
Social protection Taxation CrisisPresentation
UNU-WIDER at the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric SocietyOn 6-9 December 2022, UNU-WIDER joins the 44th meeting of the Brazilian Econometric Society (SBE). On Thursday 8 December, the programme includes a special session on ‘Inequality and development’ featuring recent research from UNU-WIDER...
Blog
Teamwork and capacity strengthening to promote development: The case of MozambiqueDesigning and implementing public policies requires caution to guarantee the best use of scarce resources, especially in middle- and lower-income countries...
Social protection Tax-benefit microsimulation Tax-benefit policyWorking Paper
The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in BrazilThis paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market...
Education Wages AgricultureReport
SOUTHMOD country report Tanzania - TAZMOD v2.5This report documents TAZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Tanzania. It 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...
Tax Government revenue Government spending policyReport
SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v2.9This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. It 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...
Fiscal policy Revenues TaxationWorking Paper
Affirmative action with no major switching: Evidence from a top university in BrazilAffirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor pre-college academic preparation...
Affirmative action Higher education BrazilPolicy Brief
Moçambique reportou o seu primeiro caso da COVID-19 em 22 de Março de 2020. As estimativas do PIB sugerem um forte efeito da pandemia, com uma redução de sete dos nove dos sectores de actividade analisados...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyBlog
The pandemic and Africa's social safety netThe COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...
Tax-benefit microsimulation SOUTHMOD Sub-Saharan AfricaBlog
Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries faredThe number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis...
COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa Tax-benefit policyPresentation
SOUTHMOD work presented at the Mozambique Social Protection WeekThe Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Action ( MGCAS ) organises a Social Protection theme week in Mozambique 11-15 October 2021. During the week, on 15 October, The Mozambican Ministry of Economy and Finance ( MEF ) with Internation Labour...
Policy Brief
Tanzania, similar to most sub-Saharan countries, reported its first COVID-19 cases in March 2020...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyPolicy Brief
Mozambique reported its first case of COVID-19 on 22 March 2020. GDP estimates suggest a strong pandemic effect, with a reduction in seven of nine business sectors analysed...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyBlog
Working together to better understand how COVID-19 affects poverty and inequalityIn summer 2020 the SOUTHMOD team set out, with partners, to analyse the impact of government policies on protecting households from getting poorer and avoiding societies from becoming more unequal...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyWorking Paper
The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemicThis 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