Workshop
UNU-WIDER researchers participate in FIT PhD course and Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar
From 10-14 June 2024, UNU-WIDER researchers participate in a PhD course on tax and transfer systems in Helsinki. It is co-sponsored by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), VATT Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Finnish Centre of...
Mon, 10 June 2024
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Fri, 14 June 2024
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Project workshop
Workshop on the MicroZAMOD update in Zambia
Members of the International Labour Organization, Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (ZIPAR), UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD team, and the Zambia Statistics Agency (ZAMSTATS) meet in Livingstone, Zambia to further develop Zambia's tax and...
Mon, 27 May 2024
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Thu, 30 May 2024
Protea Hotel,
Livingstone, Zambia,
Zambia
Past event
Working Paper
Poverty, changing political regimes, and social cash transfers in Zimbabwe, 1980–2016
Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case...
Working Paper
Financing the Zambia social cash transfer scale-up
This paper assesses the effects on poverty and inequality of the alternative targeting approaches that Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer programme could take as its expansion continues during the period of the country’s Seventh National Development Plan...
Blog
Cash Plus: Towards poverty reduction in Zambia
by
Miselo Bwalya
February 2024
The Zambian government wants to reduce poverty by 20% by 2030. To make this happen, the government reformed their national cash transfer programmes...