Health taxes are excise taxes on products that generate negative externalities and internalities and cause health harms to consumers, typically applied to tobacco, alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverages...
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...
Heavy episodic drinking or binge drinking is a major concern in Tonga. With alcohol affecting blood sugar levels, there is a strong link between alcohol and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly...
Heavy episodic drinking or binge drinking is a major concern in Tonga. With alcohol affecting blood sugar levels, there is a strong link between alcohol and non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly...
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...
The current crisis of forced displacement is posing serious humanitarian and development challenges across the world. The World Bank Group and the international community at large cannot ignore these challenges...
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods...
The current crisis of forced displacement is posing serious humanitarian and development challenges across the world. The World Bank Group and the international community at large cannot ignore these challenges...
The benefits of higher tobacco and alcohol taxes are obvious, both in terms of good health outcomes for individuals and entire communities, which result from reduced tobacco use, prevent the initiation...
Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders contribute approximately 10 percent of the global burden of disease. They often run a chronic course, are highly disabling, and are associated with...
Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake collective actions for the provision of public goods...
Cash transfers have been demonstrated to improve education and health outcomes and alleviate poverty in various contexts. However, policy makers and others often express concern that poor households will...
Social norms can be understood as either 'what most people think and do' or, alternatively, 'what individuals believe most people think and do.' As such, social norms are about what's considered normal...
Tobacco use, which is rising quickly in developing countries, kills 5.4 million people a year worldwide. This paper explores the impacts of mobile phone ownership on tobacco consumption. Indeed, mobile...
Tobacco use, which is rising quickly in developing countries, kills 5.4 million people a year worldwide. This paper explores the impacts of mobile phone ownership on tobacco consumption. Indeed, mobile...
Using an extensive survey that addresses risk factors faced by the population in the shantytowns (favelas) of Fortaleza, Brazil, the aim of this paper is to study risk-taking behavior by youth, focusing...