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government policies to where production locates in the primary objective of the study. The pork and non-cigar tobacco industries … manufactured products is generally significant across industries for production, although this is not the case for specific tobacco … industries. The presence of manufacture is significant for hog production and could not be assessed for tobacco. While federal …
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given the threat posed by the smoking and health debate. Further analysis conducted using a quantitative measure of resource …
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dynamic population model is used to estimate future patterns (both prevalence and consumption) of tobacco use in Vietnam, with … and without changes to tobacco excise for the period 2006–2016. Three increases in the base case excise tax rate of 55 … cross price elasticities are used to explore shifts from cigarette to other forms of tobacco. Revenue implications for the …
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effectively subsidised the cost of tobacco. All stores had unofficial no-smoking policies in accessible parts of the store. Remote …The objective of this study was to assess the potential for reducing the harm resulting from tobacco use through health … promotion programmes run in community stores in remote Aboriginal communities. The Tobacco Project utilised data from 111 …
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in the determination of an effective tobacco control strategy. In this paper, we investigate a compact and simplified …-based adaptive tobacco control policy. Standard decision tree (SDT) based rule discovery depends on decision boundaries in the … to learn intermediate concepts for high dimensional large datasets such as tobacco control. In this paper, we propose a …
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smoking tobacco products. Own elasticities and cross-price elasticities are used to obtain insights into the effectiveness and …This paper presents a model of estimated demand for four tobacco products: cigarettes, cigars, chewing tobacco, and … implications of new policy measures. Of particular interest is whether substitution of various tobacco products varies by market …
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An important lesson of behavioralist research is that individuals' perceptions and preferences are highly manipulable. This article presents empirical evidence of market manipulation, a previously unrecognized source of market failure. It surveys extensive qualitative and quantitative marketing...
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Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies, whether developed or developing. However, in developing countries these enterprises have tended to be looked at from a development, or poverty alleviation perspective, rather than as entrepreneurial activities and potentially...
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This paper reports a longitudinal analysis of 20 necessity driven micro-entrepreneurs operating in Beira, Central Mozambique, who received funding and training from the same NGO to establish or grow their business activities and reports the development of these entrepreneurs in terms of their...
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Though the Maganja da Costa District in Mozambique has potential for the developmentof natural resources, the District is neither economically self-reliant nor empowered andis the poorest within the country. Thus, the research question set for this study is: Whatare the main factors that inhibit...
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