Documents et rapports
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Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : A Comparative Analysis (anglais)
Tobacco taxes have positive impacts on health outcomes. However, policy makers often hesitate to use them because of the perception that poorer households are affected disproportionally more than richer...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8805 Date du document: 8 avril 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan,Gonzalez Icaza,Maria Fernanda,Paz,Daniela Paula
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The distributional effects of tobacco taxation: the evidence of white and clove cigarettes in Indonesia (anglais)
Despite the well-known positive impact of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers hesitate to use them because of their possible regressive effect, that is, poorer deciles are proportionally more...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8558 Date du document: 17 août 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan
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Long-run impacts of increasing tobacco taxes : evidence from South Africa (anglais)
Tobacco taxes are often considered regressive because the share of household budgets allocated to tobacco products is larger among low-income households than among high-income households. This paper shows...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 123800 Date du document: 26 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan,Carmen,Giselle Del,Mukon,Alfred Kechia
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Tobacco price elasticity and tax progressivity in Moldova (anglais)
The study estimates the tobacco price elasticity of demand for the population of Moldova, and the price elasticity for 10 income groups is obtained. This appears to be the first tobacco price elasticity...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 123122 Date du document: 1 janvier 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan,Meneses,Francisco Jalles
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Regressive or progressive? : the effect of tobacco taxes in Ukraine (anglais)
Tobacco taxes are usually considered regressive as the poorest individuals allocate larger shares of their budget towards the purchase of tobacco related products. However, because these taxes also discourage...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 120205 Date du document: 27 septembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan,Meneses,Francisco Jalles
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Drought and retribution : evidence from a large-scale rainfall-indexed insurance program in Mexico (anglais)
Although weather shocks are a major source of income fluctuation, most of the world's poor lack insurance coverage against them. Absence of formal insurance contributes to poverty traps, as investment...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 125501 Date du document: 1 février 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs,Alan,Wolff,Hendrik