Tobacco taxation during COVID Glass half full or half empty? cgdev.org/blog/what-happ… Tobacconomics #cigarettetaxscorecard #COVID19

Nice that Center for Global Development published our new corrective taxes paper on their 20th birthday. We focus on the high toll of death and disability from #tobacco and #alcohol and low corrective taxes on these products in #G20 #Vietnam #Ukraine #Pakistan #Philippines #healthtaxes

The productivity loss from premature death and disability (before adding in medical costs) is triple health tax collections in these countries.

On point commentary. Also the #commonframework has yet to deliver for Ethiopian people. A much more tractable case than Chad or Zambia (politics aside)

The Vaccine Mark-Up: Counting More in ODA than We Paid for Vaccines is Illogical, Immoral, and Unpopular cgdev.org/blog/vaccine-m…

Very interesting to read in #NYT that prices rose 27 percent during the black death in England 1348-1350! nytimes.com/2022/02/16/opi…

Superb on the ground coverage of #UkraineWar thru real people by BBC News (UK) kudos to all their correspondents in #Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

My latest note shows that use of health taxes in IMF programs has declined during COVID. Will this change during COVID recovery?

Good ideas Mark Sobel

Very useful blog on how World Bank by Amanda Glassman could maximize the effective of proposed new facility for pandemic preparedness.

Interesting paper - suggests disinflation process in US could be difficult and lengthy.

My latest blog on health taxes and inflation calls for indexation of specific taxes so that alcohol and tobacco do not become more affordable.

Smooth move! Now we can all wear our Patagucci clothes and feel good about it. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Africa: Why Govts Should Hike Taxes on Alcohol, Tobacco and Sugar - allAfrica.com ⁦Chris Lane⁩ & myself on #Healthtaxes for better health and revenues #tobacco #alcohol ⁦Center for Global Development⁩ allafrica.com/stories/202210…

#healthtaxes #unfucktheworld IMF World Bank

Time for a truly competitive election of WB president to help ensure they are in line with shareholders views. nytimes.com/2023/02/15/cli…

Byebye twitter. It's not what it used to be and frankly for me, in my space, not worth the time.

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