Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161526 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/143
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper provides an account of a Nambian tax-benefit microsimulation model - NAMOD - which has been developed for use by government. Following a section on the importance of social security in Namibia and recent related studies, the paper outlines the tax-benefit policies that are included within NAMOD and describes the data challenges and assumptions that had to be made in order to simulate these policies. Results for 2015 are compared with reported administrative data. In spite of current data challenges, NAMOD can be used to help inform social security policy design.
Subjects: 
tax-benefit
microsimulation
South Africa
JEL: 
C63
H24
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-187-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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