Mini-documentary - Bridging the gap: policy and people
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2018-06-08

Also available in Portuguese: https://youtu.be/VGPbVoB8Aog

The international community has called for a global data revolution to support sustainable development. This mini-documentary captures the key ideas informing the ongoing SOUTHMOD project, which is facilitating the building of  tax-benefit microsimulation models for Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Ecuador, and Vietnam. 

While microsimulation models are routinely used by researchers and policy makers in developed countries, few developing countries have access to such tools. Many of the developing countries are now building up their social protection systems and the financing of public spending will need to be increasingly based on domestic tax revenues. In this process, understanding the system-wide impacts of different policy choices is critically important, and tax-benefit microsimulation models are very well suited for this purpose.

The project is a collaboration between UNU-WIDER, EUROMOD (University of Essex), and Souther Africa Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI).

The models of each country are available through the UNU-WIDER website: http://www.wider.unu.edu

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