Opportunities to maximize the effectiveness of food and tobacco tax to help address Samoa NCD crisis

Opportunities to maximize the effectiveness of food and tobacco tax to help address Samoa NCD crisis

Samoa is one of the first countries in the Pacific to introduce taxation measures to address Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). The predicted probability of dying from NCDs between the ages of 30 and 70 years is more than double in Samoa compared to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
English
Published: Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:
TAX INFLUENCE ON BEHAVIOR
POLICY BRIEF
DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION
UNHEALTHY CONSUMPTION TAX
TOBACCO TAX
ALCHOHOL TAX
FOOD TAX
TAX POLICY
NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CRISIS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099455108172230367/P15377802f248606409e230b48bda60b256
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37904

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099455108172230367/P15377802f248606409e230b48bda60b256
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37904

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