Blog
Ending aid dependency: Taxation in developing countries can be improved through collaboration
Finland aims to raise the amount of its development assistance to 0.7% of GDP, and this goal has good grounds. But how can we make sure that the...
Blog
Co-creation for fair and efficient taxation: Research recommendations to improve policies
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Maria Jouste, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Nicholas Musoke
August 2021
How can we determine the taxation of wage earners or multinational corporations in a fair manner? Will simplifying tax administration help increase...
Blog
Data access for economic growth in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has abundant natural resources and a substantial market, with an estimated population of 1.2 billion. The population is projected...
Blog
How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequality
In 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes. Tax authorities collect an enormous amount of...
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International tax research: Why does more than numbers matter
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Maria Jouste, Tina Kaidu Barugahara, Dorothy Nakyambadde
August 2020
Can tax research be inspiring? Looking back at the three years of collaboration between UNU-WIDER and the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), the answer...
Project workshop
Tax and development workshop
The Tax and Development workshop will bring together researchers, tax experts and practitioners to exchange experiences on using administrative tax data in their respective countries for research purposes. The event will be attended by 40 experts...
Tue, 11 May 2021
Online,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
UNU-WIDER at the Dialogue on Tax and SDGs conference
Tue, 14 November 2023
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Fri, 17 November 2023
Online,
New York,
United States
Past event
Workshop
Stata data management training for revenue authorities
A new three day in-person Data management in Stata capacity development workshop is provided to the research staff of the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in Kampala, Uganda on 3-5 April 2023. Few people in revenue authorities have the skills to manage...
Mon, 3 April 2023
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Wed, 5 April 2023
Digital Den, Uganda Revenue Authority,
Kampala,
Uganda
Past event
Workshop
Navigating administrative data access: strategies, reasons, and partner perspectives
The United Nations World institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), the National Treasury of South Africa, the Spatial Economic Activity Data South Africa, and the Southern African Towards Economic Development (SA-TIED) programme, with...
Mon, 4 December 2023
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Fri, 8 December 2023
Stats SA Auditorium,
ISIbalo House, Koch Street; Salvokop ,
Pretoria,
South Africa
Past event
Workshop
CSPR MicroZAMOD training workshop
The Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) is excited to announce a CSPR MicroZAMOD training workshop in Lusaka from 25–28 March 2024. This intensive four-day event is part of the SOUTHMOD project and aims to bring together staff members of CSPR...
Mon, 25 March 2024
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Thu, 28 March 2024
Lusaka,
Zambia
Past event