Increasing Taxes on Tobacco in Low and Middle-Income Countries : Hurting or Saving the Poor?
Policy makers hesitate to increase tobacco taxes over concerns about taxes being regressive and potentially increasing poverty and inequality. This note summarizes a set of studies of the effects of raising tobacco taxes in 11 low and middle-income...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/840531596003778706/Increasing-Taxes-on-Tobacco-in-Low-and-Middle-Income-Countries-Hurting-or-Saving-the-Poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34309 |