Documentos e informes

Salvar Vidas e Aumentar a Receita: Oportunidades Oferecidas pela Reforma dos Impostos Indiretos para Melhorar a Tributação Sobre Tabaco, Álcool, e Bebidas Açucaradas no Brasil (Portugués)

Taxes and prices of tobacco products, alcoholic beverages, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Brazil are low compared to international peers. The ongoing landmark reform of indirect taxes (PLP 68/2024...

Tobacco Excise Taxes and Tobacco Leaf Farming— Key Considerations (Inglés)

The Global Tax Program Health Taxes Knowledge Note Series focuses on topics linked to implementation of health taxes, or excise taxes on tobacco, alcoholic drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. The purpose...

The Distributional Impacts of Health Taxes (Inglés)

The link between health problems and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been widely studied. A large array of diseases is associated with tobacco, ranging from...

Samoa Food and Tobacco Tax Household Survey 2020 (Inglés)

Major risk factors for NCDs in Samoa include poor nutrition, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity. Addressing all of these risk behaviors requires multisectoral, multilevel action...

A Novel Tobacco Market Diversification : Unsmoking Rich Countries while Smoking Low-and-Middle Income Countries (Inglés)

In this working paper, an exploration of available data and information is conducted and findings presented, to support the view that the dichotomous business model and related harm reduction narrative...

A Novel Tobacco Market Diversification : Unsmoking Rich Countries while Smoking Low-and-Middle Income Countries (Inglés)

In this working paper, an initial exploration of available data and information is conducted and findings presented, to support the view that the dichotomous business model and related “harm reduction”...

Official Documents- Amendment No. 2 to the Supplemental Agreement with the Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc. for TF073251 parallel to TF072332 (Inglés)

The Distributional Impacts of Cigarette Taxation in Bangladesh (Inglés)

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...

Bosnia P160512 TF A4795 RHRF 31 Dec 18 Cons Audit report (Inglés)

Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run : Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia (Inglés)

This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the "Mirt" biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively long period of three-and-a-half years, using stove use data collected at five points...

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Reducing Health Risk Factors : audited financial statement - year ending December 31, 2019 (Inglés)

Official Documents- Amendment No. 1 to the Supplemental Agreement with the Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc. for TF073251 parallel to TF072332 (Inglés)

Taxing Tobacco in Georgia : Welfare and Distributional Gains of Smoking Cessation (Inglés)

This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional impacts of increasing taxes on cigarettes in Georgia. Increasing taxes on tobacco is an effective measure to reduce smoking. According to some estimates...

Implementation Completion and Results Report (ICR) Document - Reducing Health Risk Factors - P160512 (Inglés)

Ratings for the Reducing Health Risk Factors Project for Bosnia and Herzegovina were as follows: outcome was moderately unsatisfactory; Bank performance was moderately satisfactory; and monitoring and...

Knowledge Highlights from the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice: Fiscal Year 2019 (Inglés)

The World Bank Group is committed to helping governments achieve universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030, which has the potential to transform the health and well-being of individuals and societies. The...

Montenegro - Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation and Taxation (Inglés)

Montenegro became a Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2006 and ratified the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in 2017. Tobacco excise hikes, undertaken in...

Tajikistan - Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation, and Taxation (Inglés)

Smoking prevalence Tajikistan remains rather moderate. According to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted in 2016, smokers constitute 6.3 percent of the adult population of Tajikistan. However...

Costa Rica - Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation, and Taxation (Inglés)

This brief provides an overview of tobacco control legislation, use, and taxation in the country. Costa Rica ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2008. General Law for the Control...

Guatemala : Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation, and Taxation (Inglés)

The brief provides an overview of tobacco control legislation, use, and taxation in the country.

Jordan - Overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation and Taxation (Inglés)

This brief provides an overview of tobacco control legislation, use, and taxation in the country. The prevalence of smoking is rather high in Jordan. The Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) found that in...