Learning from the Mexican Experience with Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Energy-Dense Foods of Low Nutritional Value : Poverty and Social Impact Analysis
Faced with a large and increasing obesity epidemic, the Mexican Government in the last years has increased efforts to prevent and control it. In October 2013, Mexico’s Congress passed legislation imposing taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) a...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26522367/learning-mexican-experience-taxes-sugar-sweetened-beverages-energy-dense-foods-low-nutritional-value-poverty-social-impact-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24701 |