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...
Main Author: | World Bank |
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Format: | Brief |
Language: | English English |
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Washington, DC
2022
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099455108172230367/P15377802f248606409e230b48bda60b256 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37904 |
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