developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can … learn from each other to improve social protection and reduce inequality. …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of … the Global South. Using national survey data and tax-benefit microsimulation models from the SOUTHMOD project, we provide …

an expanded set of social benefits would lead to reduced poverty and inequality in comparison to the current practice of …Using SAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for South Africa, this paper examines the joint distributional impact … of the increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate and increases in benefit amounts in 2018. Although poverty and …

Mainland. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model- TAZMOD-which is underpinned by data derived from the Household … revenue losses and impact on poverty are estimated. The rules for direct taxes are then modified in order to identify ways in …

the effects of four UBI schemes on poverty and inequality measures during normal times and times of crisis in Uganda and … benefit leads to higher poverty and inequality compared to existing benefits. By contrast, in Uganda, a country with only one … notable social protection programme, all UBI scenarios reduce poverty and inequality. Differences between welfare estimates …

highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …-benefit microsimulation model for Zambia for the policy year 2020. The analysis also considers the behavioural impacts of input subsidies and … social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …. Simulations found that individual level allowances reduce poverty more than household level allowances. Such individual level …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

Understanding chronic poverty and its evolution is complex given the amount of information involved. This paper … proposes a new approach to analysing the evolution of chronic poverty in a multivariate setting using a Shapley decomposition … of a multidimensional chronic poverty measure proposed by Alkire and colleagues. This makes it possible to assess a vast …