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Every gun and bullet sold in the U.S. generates excise taxes to support conservation. But Americans are buying guns now for different reasons than in the past – and increasingly, not for hunting.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Between 2018 and 2019 Kenya registered a 30% spike in sugar production and an increase in sugar consumption.
Governments worldwide have put in place economic and tax relief measures to mitigate the impact on businesses and workers of drastic public health measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Alcohol is classified by the World Health Organization as a Class 1 carcinogen. Our next federal government must step up with an Alcohol Act and a strategy to reduce harms from this recreational drug.
Micro-brewers are increasing in Australia, which is surprising given the unfair excises and rebates they face.
Countries that have successfully decreased illicit trade have typically used a combination of political will and technology. South Africa should join the pack.
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Scientist, Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research and Professor of Psychology, University of Victoria
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior lecturer in taxation, Stellenbosch University Business School and Extraordinary Professor at UNISA, Stellenbosch University
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Research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes, School of Economics, University of Rwanda
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PhD Candidates, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor in International Business & Strategic Management, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
