This report uses selected scenarios for increasing excise taxes on tobacco products in Trinidad and Tobago, with the aim of reducing smoking prevalence across the population. These scenarios provide inputs for modeling the long-term health and cost benefits to the population of proposed excise...

The major macroeconomic goals are to boost output and employment levels and maintaining price stability. Two mainstream polices tasked with regulating the economy to achieve these multiple goals are monetary and fiscal policies. These policies use different instruments to influence the...

Evidence from across the world shows that raising taxes sharply on tobacco products, and then adjusting for inflation and increased affordability due to growing incomes, is the single most cost-effective measure to reduce tobacco consumption. A scaled-up and stronger tobacco control effort is...

This report uses selected scenarios for increasing excise taxes on tobacco products in Trinidad and Tobago, with the aim of reducing smoking prevalence across the population. These scenarios provide inputs for modeling the long-term health and cost benefits to the population of proposed excise...

Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Study- the Challenge of managing oil -- Chapter 2. Economic History of Oil Exploration and Production in T&T, 1857-2020 -- Chapter 3. History of oil refining in T&T -- Chapter 4. Natural Gas Production -- Chapter 5. Resource Curse and the Dutch Disease --...