Report
SOUTHMOD country report Mozambique - MOZMOD v1.0
View the latest MOZMOD country report here. This report documents MOZMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Mozambique. This work was carried out by the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Mozambique in collaboration with the project partners in the...
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ecuador - ECUAMOD v1.0
View the latest ECUAMOD country report here. This report documents ECUAMOD, the SOUTHMOD micrososimulation model developed for Ecuador. This work was carried out by the ISER in collaboration with the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales and UNU...
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Zambia - MicroZAMOD v1.0
View the latest MicroZAMOD country report here. This report documents MicroZAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Zambia. This work was carried out by Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis & Research (ZIPAR) in collaboration with the project partners...
Blog
Tax, development and the SDGs: How we are supporting the data revolution
by
Kyle McNabb
June 2017
At the core of efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals lies a commitment to enhance domestic revenue mobilization. Strengthening capacity to...
Blog
Updated Government Revenue Dataset provides new insights into developing country tax collection trends
by
Kyle McNabb
October 2017
The increasing focus on domestic resource mobilization in developing countries means that, for researchers and policy makers, access to accurate and...
Blog
Domestic revenue mobilization and the role of data
by
James Stewart
October 2017
Government revenues are central to funding public expenditures in all countries. Increasingly, developing countries must look to raise domestic...
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ethiopia - ETMOD v1.0
View the latest ETMOD country report here. This report documents ETMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ethiopia. This work was carried out by the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) in collaboration with the University of Essex and the...
Report
SOUTHMOD country report Ghana - GHAMOD v1.0
View the latest GHAMOD country report here. This report documents GHAMOD, the SOUTHMOD model developed for Ghana. This work was carried out by the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the University of Tampere in...
Working Paper
Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics
The Government Revenue Dataset (GRD) was launched in September 2014 and, in the few years since, has gone on to be recognized as the go-to source for researchers and policy makers seeking cross-country data on government revenues and taxes. However...
Presentation
Optimal taxation from a behavioral viewpoint: Implications for redistributive policies
Jukka Pirttilä presented 'Optimal taxation from a behavioral viewpoint: Implications for redistributive policies' at the University of Verona, Winter School of Inequality and social welfare theory, 2015.
Tue, 13 January 2015
University of Verona,
Via dell'Artigliere 8,
Verona,
Italy
Past event
Working Paper
How does petty corruption affect tax morale in sub-Saharan Africa
Revenues from taxation gain importance to finance economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Extortion of bribes by public officials can provide one obstacle for tax compliance. This paper uses micro-level data from the Afrobarometer to analyse how...
Working Paper
Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour market
Labour market analysis in the South African context provides a relatively robust understanding of the individual characteristics that influence wage differentials across workers (i.e. supply-side characteristics), but provides relatively little...
Blog
Opening the vault: Data, research, and improved policymaking in South Africa
by
James Stewart
March 2017
Policymakers often work in the dark, as they try to make real impact on people’s lives. If you don’t have good data, being worked on by good...
Blog
Microsimulation models for developing countries: An interview with Jukka Pirttilä
by
Heikki Laurinolli
March 2017
The University of Tampere is participating in an international project in which a microsimulation model is being drafted for the evaluation of the...
Blog
Estimating tax avoidance: New findings, new questions
by
Alex Cobham
March 2017
There are now a range of estimates of the global scale of tax avoidance. These include: the $600 billion annual tax loss estimated by IMF researchers...