How Tobacco Taxes Can Expand Fiscal Space and Benefit the Poor
Serrat, Olivier; Moser, Patricia | May 2014
Abstract
Without intervention, cigarette smoking will eventually kill about 267 million current and future smokers in the People’s Republic of China, India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. In these five Asian countries, increasing tobacco taxes is a pro-poor measure that can reduce the number of smokers and smoking-related deaths, and generate substantial new revenues. Use of these new revenues to finance health services for the poor can increase impacts on both poverty and health.
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Serrat, Olivier; Moser, Patricia. 2014. How Tobacco Taxes Can Expand Fiscal Space and Benefit the Poor. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2636. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Urban Development Finance
Trade Finance
Small Business Finance
Rural Finance
Roundtable on International Trade and Finance
Regional Development Finance
Public Service Finance
Public Finance
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