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Tobacco Excise Taxes and Tobacco Leaf Farming- Key Considerations
World Bank - 2023
The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose of this series is to provide policy makers with an overview of relevant issues and...
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Tobacco Pack Information
World Bank - 2012
There are an estimated 1.2 billion regular smokers in the world today, approximately one third of the global population over the age of 15, and the numbers are rising (World Health Organization 2002). Studies show that many smokers still do not know that tobacco causes disease and premature...
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Globalization, wages, and the quality of jobs : five country studies
Robertson, Raymond (contributor) - 2009
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Making work pay in Madagascar : employment, growth, and poverty reduction
Hoftijzer, Margo - 2008
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The challenge of expanding secondary education and training in Madagascar
2008
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The elimination of Madagascar's vanilla marketing board, ten years on
Cadot, Olivier - 2006
"This paper explores how the elimination of Madagascar's Marketing Board in 1995 affected prices paid to farmers …, incentives, and regional indicators of poverty and inequality. After steadily losing market share, Madagascar has been able to … at the regional level. After taking into account the reduction in Madagascar's monopoly power on the world vanilla market …
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Export led growth, pro-poor or not? : evidence from Madagascar's textile and apparel industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2006
"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low … labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of …
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Poverty alleviation through geographic targeting : how much does disaggregation help?
Elbers, Chris (contributor) - 2004
"Using recently completed "poverty maps" for Cambodia, Ecuador, and Madagascar, the authors simulate the impact on …
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On the unequal inequality of poor communities
Elbers, Chris (contributor) - 2004
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Robustness of subjective welfare analysis in a poor developing country : / Madagascar 2001
Paternostro, Stefano - 2004
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