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The impact of a tax on added sugar and salt
Griffith, Rachel; Jenneson, Victoria; James, Joseph; … - 2021
these taxes to address concerns about rising obesity. We demonstrate the range of impacts a tax on added sugar and salt …-responsive firms and consumers, and everything in between. Fully responsive firms would reformulate products to reduce sugar and salt … would substitute away from products in proportion to the increase in price, and not increase purchases of added sugar or …
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Free trade agreements and world obesity
Baggio, Michele; Chong, Alberto - 2019
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Cointegrated vector autoregression methods : an application to non-normally behaving data on selected US sugar-related markets
Babula, Ronald Alexander (contributor);  … - 2005
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A bitter pill to swallow : India’s sugar sector under siege at the WTO
Sharma, Sachin Kumar; Dobhal, Adeet; Savooji, Saiya - 2019
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Information barriers, export promotion institutions, and the extensive margin of trade
Volpe Martincus, Christian; Estevadeordal, Antoni; … - 2010
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The political economy of pension reform : public opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Machado, Fabiana V.P.; Vesga, Giselle - 2015
Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change...
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Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
Morales Sarriera, Javier; Serebrisky, Tomás; … - 2013
We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. We employed a 10-year panel with data on container throughput, port terminal area, berth length, and number of available cranes in 63 ports. The...
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Unemployment protection for informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Sarzosa, Miguel - 2013
We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium search and matching model with salaried employment and informal self-employment to analyze the implications of introducing universal unemployment protection for informal workers through transfers, which are conditional on participation in training...
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International product fragmentation and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks : Colombian case studies
Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012
Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...
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What is the relationship between national saving and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Pedemonte, Mathieu - 2015
Using panel co-integration techniques and a comprehensive dataset covering the period 1980-2013, this paper finds a positive and significant correlation between national saving and domestic investment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The estimated correlation is approximately 0.39;...
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