NAMOD

NAMOD is a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Namibia and was developed primarily for use by Government.

History:

Development of NAMOD started in 2012.

Current team members:

Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (UK) and Southern African Social Policy Research Institute (South Africa)

Former team members:

Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy, University of Oxford, UK

Status:

Not maintained

Content accessibility:

• Private, access restricted

Data accessibility:

• Private
Notes: Data is held by Government of Namibia

Input data sources:

• Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey (NHIES) 2009/10

Model outputs:

• Wright, G., Noble, M. and Barnes, H. (2014) NAMOD: a Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model. EUROMOD Working Paper No. EM7/14, Essex: University of Essex.
• Wright, G., Noble, M., Barnes, H., McLennan, D. and Mpike, M. (2016) Updating NAMOD, a Namibian tax-benefit microsimulation model. WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/143. UNU-WIDER: Helsinki, Finland.

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