This event evidenced the growing role of microsimulation models to support public policy decision making. The relevance of the EUROMOD model in this context, both as modelling platform used to develop non-EU models, as it is the case in many Latin American countries, and as a tool extensively used by the European Commission services, was particularly salient. During the roundtable organised at the end of the event, Salvador shared the EU experience on the use of EUROMOD to support policy recommendations and proposals by the European Commission. The discussion highlighted the usefulness of access to administrative data to support social policies and the role microsimulation model can play in terms of designing and assessing these policies when availing of such data.

The other panel participants included Yorleny León (Minister for Human Development and Social Inclusion, Costa Rica), Roberto Guillén (Vice-Rector, University of Costa Rica) and Lisseth Rodríguez Garita, (Executive director of the Sistema Nacional de Información de Registro Único de Beneficiarios). The talk focused on the role of data, in particular administrative data, models and economic analysis to support social policy making. It was also the occasion to promote the recent completion of the CRiMod model, the tax and social benefits microsimulation model for Costa Rica, which uses the EUROMOD platform and is coordinated by Prof. Luis Vargas Montoya.