Pia Rattenhuber

Research Fellow

Pia Rattenhuber is a Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER. She has previously worked for OECD (Department of Labour and Social Affairs), the German Ministry of Economics and the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW Berlin). She attained her PhD from Free University Berlin. Her works focuses on social protection systems, taxation and tax-benefit microsimulation models.

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Phone +358-(0)9-615 99218

Email pia@wider.unu.edu

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    Walking the road to the Fourth Financing for Development Conference and beyond

    Last week, we attended the 2025 UNDP Dialogue on Public Finance and SDGs, where we explored the most pressing topics regarding public financing for...

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    Improving tax administration and data access – contributions to the Financing for Development Elements paper

    The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain, will convene in 2025, providing a global stage for countries...

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    CoP on Gender & Tax Explores Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models

    At the last meeting of the Community of Practice on Gender and Tax (CoPGT), held on 10th September 2024, the conversation focused on microsimulation...

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    The pandemic and Africa's social safety net

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...

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    Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries fared

    The number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis. The...

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    Dr Pia Rattenhuber on inequality in crises — an interview

    How do crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic influence inequality and the other way around? This year’s UN Day Dresden put a spotlight on “Inequalities...

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    Working together to better understand how COVID-19 affects poverty and inequality

    In summer 2020 the SOUTHMOD team set out, with partners, to analyse the impact of government policies on protecting households from getting poorer and...

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    Studying COVID-19 through the lens of microsimulation: The role of tax and benefit policies in alleviating poverty and inequality

    As the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, developing nations are struggling to deliver economic assistance and public services to their...

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    GHAMOD launch and training: A tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana

    Better social protection coverage and greater benefits in developing countries would certainly be welcomed by many. More and better forms of social...

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