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In recent years social protection has emerged as a key policy strategy against poverty and vulnerability in many developing countries. It has evolved into a wide number of different forms in terms of focus and targeting population, coverage, scope, and design features, with some programmes providing income transfers alone, while others combining income transfers with the utilization of social services and assets.
However, financing remains a key constraint. Revenue mobilization strategies have been explored in some developing countries to finance social protection. These include reforms on natural resource taxes, royalties, and fees; shifting expenditure from subsidies and tax exemptions to social protection, and redistribution. Efforts to increase the tax capacity by making the tax administration work more efficiently and by broadening the tax base are often essential, although the feasibility of these strategies often depend on political economy considerations.
This UNU-WIDER project seeks to provide researchers, policy-makers and practitioners with tools to improve the methods of analysis of current incidence of tax and social protection systems as well as the potential distributional impacts of tax and benefit reforms. It explores microsimulation analysis, register-based tax research, and political economy models of social protection to contribute to the capacity of developing countries to create effective social protection systems.
The project will produce among other things:
- a new, purposely built database on Social Protection Systems in Developing Countries
- analytical tools based on microsimulation models of social protection and tax system reforms
- political economy models of taxation and social protection.
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SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.5View the latest ECUAMOD country report here . This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador...
Taxes Benefits MicrosimulationWorkshop
Third training on TAZMOD - a tax-benefit microsimulation model for TanzaniaAs part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with UNU-WIDER, and Southern African Social Policy Research Insights ( SASPRI ) will organize a training event on the TAZMOD model. This third...
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The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern AfricaThe notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice...
Social protection Social assistance International development organizationsPresentation
ECUAMOD model presented in Quito
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Third training on MicroZAMOD – a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia
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The politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa: Actors, institutions and dynamicsSince the mid-1990s, there has been in Africa something of a ‘quiet revolution’ in poverty reduction strategies with the proliferation of social assistance programmes that entail cash transfers to the poor...
Social protection Social assistance International development organizationsJournal Article
Institutionalizing Segregation: Women, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Paid Employment in Southern EcuadorPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Discrimination in employment Segregation Transfer paymentsJournal Article
The Long(er)‐Term Impacts of Chile Solidario on Human Capital and Labor IncomePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Conditional cash transfers Human capital Labour incomeJournal Article
Cash Transfers and Gender Differentials in Child Schooling and Labor: Evidence from the Lesotho Child Grants ProgrammePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Children Education LabourJournal Article
Schooling and Labor Market Impacts of Bolivia's Bono Juancito Pinto ProgramPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Bolivia Child labour Conditional cash transfersJournal Article
Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia: The Role of DecentralizationPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Decentralization Education transfer Education qualityJournal Article
The National Care System in Uruguay: Who Benefits and Who Pays?Part of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Childcare Elderly care RedistributionJournal Article
The Intergenerational Impact of China's New Rural Pension SchemePart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
China Intergenerational Mobility PensionsJournal Article
Basic Old‐Age Protection in Latin America: Noncontributory Pensions, Coverage Expansion Strategies, and Aging Patterns across CountriesPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Equality Old age Social pensionsJournal Article
Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Social assistance Social protection PovertyJournal Special Issue
Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global SouthThis special issue presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration...
Welfare Redistribution Global southContext
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Theme: 2014-18, Inclusion