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tobacco taxation in these three countries. According to the results obtained, in 2012 smoking caused around 310,000 deaths in …The main objectives of this paper are to estimate the burden of tobacco-caused mortality as a whole and by main tobacco … analysis includes an estimation of changes in smoking prevalence, mortality, life expectancy, and public health expenditures by …
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The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who … represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax … net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco products would bring out the potential of tax as an instrument to …
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Während die Erhöhung der Mineralöl- und der Versicherungssteuer in den ersten fünf Monaten dieses Jahres zu Mehreinnahmen von 34,5 bzw. 62,8% führte, entwickelte sich das Tabaksteueraufkommen ausgesprochen enttäuschend für den Fiskus: Statt der offiziell erwarteten Mehreinnahmen von 0,75...
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Revenue from taxation of tobacco products accounts for more than 5 % of total government revenue in Thailand. The Thai … tobacco industry is less significant: in 2000 it employed only 0.67 % of the total agricultural workforce, and only 0.11 % of … all manufacturing workers. Until 1996, tobacco prices increased more slowly than prices of other consumer goods. After …
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Das Tabakaufkommen wuchs 1990 aufgrund der innerdeutschen Grenzöffnung so stark wie schon seit drei Jahrzehnten nicht mehr. Die in diesem Jahr abzusehenden Mehreinnahmen beruhen einmal darauf, daß auch schon im ersten Halbjahr Tabaksteuer aus den neuen Bundesländern in die Bundeskasse...
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According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...
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Africa, in general, is vulnerable to climate change, mostly due to its dependence on agriculture. Mozambique is a prime example. Agriculture is an important sector of the country’s economy, and, as indicated by the 2007 FAO country factsheet, around 80 percent of the population (about...
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Modeling the impacts of climate change presents a complex challenge arising from the wide-ranging processes underlying the working of markets, ecosystems, and human behavior. The analytical framework used in this monograph integrates modeling components that range from the macro to the micro to...
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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
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