Southmod
SOUTHMOD is a collection of tax-benefit models for countries in the Global South, maintained and managed by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and partners.
It belongs to the class of static microsimulation models and currently has 13 modules for seven countries in Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Rwanda, Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar, Uganda, Zambia), four in Latin America (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), and one in Southeast Asia (Vietnam).
[5] SOUTHMOD allows researchers and analysts to simulate, evaluate and compare the impact of tax-benefit policies in several developing countries in terms of disposable income and household consumption.
[7] In addition to model development, the SOUTHMOD project is concerned with building capacity in the host countries to encourage the use of microsimulation techniques among academics and policymakers.
Research under the project promotes using the models to analyse the distributional and fiscal effects of tax-benefit policy reforms in the Global South.
World map showing tax-benefit microsimulation models built on the EUROMOD platform, per the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (last updated September 2023). The countries in green belong to the SOUTHMOD model family, the rest represent other EUROMOD-based microsimulation models, including EUROMOD models for countries of the European Union.