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The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh

Despite the obvious positive health impacts of tobacco taxation, an argument raised against it is that poor households bear the burden of the increased prices because of their higher share of spending on tobacco. This note includes estimates of the...

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Main Authors: Del Carmen, Giselle, Fuchs, Alan, Genoni, Maria Eugenia
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
INEQUALITY
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
TOBACCO TAX
TOBACCO PRICE
TAXATION
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/688821536776691954/The-Distributional-Impacts-of-Cigarette-Taxation-in-Bangladesh
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30424

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/688821536776691954/The-Distributional-Impacts-of-Cigarette-Taxation-in-Bangladesh
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30424

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