Conference EUROMOD
EUROMOD conference: Income redistribution and the role of tax-benefit systems in Latin America
- Date and time
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- Location
- Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales, Av. Amazonas N37-271 y Villalengua, Quito, Ecuador
- Presented by
- Keynote by Professor Olivier Bargain (University of Bordeaux and Institut Universitaire de France)
The conference will feature a policy round table discussion on ’El rol de los impuestos y las transferencias monetarias en la reducción de la pobreza y desigualdad
en Ecuador’, and parallel sessions with contributed papers.
The conference is part of the activities in the SOUTHMOD project, in which tax-benefit microsimulation models for selected developing countries were built. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, has been developed in collaboration with IAEN, UNU-WIDER, and the EUROMOD team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.