The challenge
Removing tax from food products can impact poorer households in Papua New Guinea. This project seeks to understand the extent to which retailers in Papua New Guinea pass on tax cuts to consumers and who consumes the items for which the tax has been removed.
The research
To analyse these scenarios, we draw on administrative data, nationally representative phone surveys, data scraped from websites, and a census of supermarkets.
The impact
This is an ongoing project that provides policy advice to senior policymakers in real time.
Our researchers
Melbourne Institute - Christopher Hoy
University of Papua New Guinea - Matias Strehl-Pessina, Ruggero Doino, Darian Naidoo, Kingtau Mambon, Bobby Kunda
Our partners
University of Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office