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With the Rise of Right‐Wing Governments, Why a One‐Time “50% Health Tax” Will Be a Hard Sell and How It Could Be Implemented

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent calls from the World Health Organization (WHO) to globally impose a one‐time tax, labelled as “Health tax”, on tobacco, alcohol and sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) aim to achieve a 50% retail price increase to reduce consumption and improve health outcomes.
Hazem Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caracterización clínico-epidemiológica y agentes etiológicos de las infecciones respiratorias agudas graves en adultos en Paraguay

open access: yesMedicina Clínica y Social
Introducción: La Vigilancia Centinela de las Infecciones Respiratorias Agudas Graves (IRAG) incluye el monitoreo y caracterización de casos hospitalizados.
Dora Montiel-Jarolin   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Revealing patterns of endemism in the transatlantic family Chelodesmidae (Polydesmida: Diplopoda)

open access: yesCladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract With fossil records dating back to the Silurian/Late Ordovician, millipedes stand out as one of the earliest terrestrial animal groups. Their limited vagility and high endemism make them valuable tools for formulating and testing biogeographic hypotheses, including those related to macro‐vicariance events.
Rodrigo Salvador Bouzan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meeting the Poverty-Reduction MDG in the Southern Cone [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and trace the ...
Leonardo Gasparini, Martín Cicowiez
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Use of geographical and socio-economical information to support the risk assessment of foot and mouth disease in the frontier between Brazil and Paraguay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
ln 2001, Brazil was able to eliminate the outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in bovine herds. After that, meat exports had an increase of 200%. However, in September 2005 occurred a FMD outbreak in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) and Parana ...
Amaral, Thais Basso   +3 more
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Pro‐Market Economic Reforms and Resource Curse: Do Initial Conditions Matter?

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The quality of economic institutions plays a crucial role in enhancing a country's economic performance, leading international organisations to recommend pro‐market institutional reforms as a strategy to support economic development. This paper investigates how the natural resource curse affects pro‐market reforms, analysing a sample of 90 ...
Isaac Amedanou, Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado
wiley   +1 more source

Re-emergence of DENV-3 in Paraguay After Two Decades: A Genomic and Epidemiological Investigation

open access: yesEmerging Microbes and Infections
We report the re-emergence of dengue virus serotype 3 (DENV-3) in Paraguay after 15 years of absence. Twelve laboratory-confirmed cases were detected in early 2025 in the Asunción metropolitan region.
Cesar Cantero   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of ESG in Shaping the Impact of Financial Development on Banks' Performance

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how financial development, divided into financial markets and financial institutions, affects banks' performance across 93 financially developed countries during the period between 2008 and 2023. The analysis highlights the role of environmental, social and governance readiness as core determinants that reshape ...
Noman Arshed   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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