Challenging poverty in developing countries – the impact of our innovation in microsimulation in Mozambique

New spin-off models based on EUROMOD, our tax-benefit microsimulation model developed at Essex, are informing effective policies to combat poverty in developing countries
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Basic Income – testing of a fascinating policy

Basic Income, sometimes called Citizen’s Basic Income or Universal Basic Income, broadly refers to a state transfer given to each individual no matter their circumstances. It’s a policy proposal for alleviating inequality, attracting a lot of attention in policy circles around the world.
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Blog: Basic Income – testing of a fascinating policy by Iva Valentinova Tasseva

Basic Income, sometimes called Citizen’s Basic Income or Universal Basic Income, broadly refers to a state transfer given to each individual no matter their circumstances. It’s a policy proposal for alleviating inequality, attracting a lot of attention in policy circles around the world. Some of the main questions that form the debate around Basic Income […]

Latvia Stumbling Towards Progressive Income Taxation: Episode II

This policy brief uses EUROMOD-LV model to analyze the distributional effects of the 2018 Tax Reform in Latvia

EUROMOD analysis informs new European Commission reports on economic policies

New 2018 European Semester recommendations build on country-specific analysis supported by ISER’s tax benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD

World Bank uses EUROMOD for flagship report on European Union

New analysis by the World Bank finds inequality among people has been mounting in many parts of the EU since the 1990s, as low-income Europeans have been falling behind in the labour market

Next Director of EUROMOD announced

Matteo Richiardi appointed as Professor of Economics and will take over as Director of EUROMOD from Professor Holly Sutherland in the autumn

Call for Papers: Income redistribution and the role of tax-benefit systems in Latin America

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, the EUROMOD team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales invite researchers to submit papers for an international conference on 5-6 July 2018 in Quito, Ecuador.