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The impact of indirect tax on income distribution and poverty in TanzaniaThis study analyses the impacts of indirect tax benefits policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8...
Income distribution SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulationJournal Article
What sustains informality?: A study of interactions between formal and informal sector firmsPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Informal sector Income distribution Supply and demandBlog
Corona pandemic revealed gaps in African social security systems
Millions of Africans lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but state social security systems were of little help to people who lost their income...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyPolicy Brief
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Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelMyanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour...
Myanmar Child labour School reformWorking Paper
Taxation and income distribution in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelDespite major public finance reform efforts over the last decade, Myanmarese public finances continue to be characterized by relative weakness in revenue collection, budget execution, and long-term sustainability...
Myanmar Tax reform Economic efficiencyWorking Paper
The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countriesAlthough the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited...
Inflation Income tax Fiscal dragPolicy Brief
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Blog
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 PovertyPolicy Brief
Working 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 PovertyTechnical Note
Exploring the quality of income data in two South African household surveys which underpin SAMODThis note has set out several data processes that have been undertaken using the income data in dataset(s) that underpin SAMOD...
Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distribution South AfricaJournal Article
Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID-19 and state-led remedial measures in South AfricaThis study explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa...
Social protection Tax-benefit microsimulation Income distribution