The Distributional Effects of Tobacco Taxation : The Evidence of White and Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia

Despite the well-known positive impact of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers hesitate to use them because of their possible regressive effect, that is, poorer deciles are proportionally more negatively affected than richer ones. Using...

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Main Authors: Fuchs, Alan, Del Carmen, Giselle
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/947511534513877197/The-distributional-effects-of-tobacco-taxation-the-evidence-of-white-and-clove-cigarettes-in-Indonesia
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30285