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Taxing Sweets: Sweetener Input Tax or Final Consumption Tax? [PDF]
In order to reduce obesity and associated costs, policymakers are considering various policies, including taxes, to change consumers’ high-calorie consumption habits.
Beghin, John C. +2 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Tax Policy Trends: Canadian Policy Makers Respond to U.S. Tax Overhaul
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2019 Following the 2017 overhaul of the U.S. corporate and personal tax system, 2018 has seen much discussion regarding Canada’s diminished tax advantage and its attractiveness as an investment destination in comparison to the U.S.
Philip Bazel, Jack Mintz
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, 2021 This book, the product of a multi-year knowledge-exchange effort led by WHO staff, represents the first in-depth global treatment of health taxes as an independent domain of social policy.
Lauer, JA +3 more
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Import Wheat Tenders and the Effects of the Russian Invasion
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Risk and volatility for many commodities escalated sharply following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, creating numerous uncertainties for trading firms and importers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the bidding behavior in Egyptian wheat import tenders in the pre‐ and post‐invasion periods.
William W. Wilson +2 more
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Scientific ReportsThe tetrasubstituted naphthalene diimide compound QN-302 binds to G-quadruplex (G4) DNA structures. It shows high potency in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cells and inhibits the transcription of cancer-related genes in these cells and in PDAC ...
Ahmed Abdullah Ahmed +11 more
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Emission-Intensity-Based Carbon Tax and Its Impact on Generation Self-Scheduling
Energies, 2019 We propose an emission-intensity-based carbon-tax policy for the electric-power industry and investigate the impact of the policy on thermal generation self-scheduling in a deregulated electricity market.
Ping Che, Yanyan Zhang, Jin Lang
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The Constitutionality of a National Wealth Tax [PDF]
, 2018 Economic inequality threatens America’s constitutional democracy. Beyond obvious harms to our nation’s social fabric and people’s lives, soaring economic inequality translates into political inequality and corrodes democratic institutions and values. The
Dellinger, Walter E., III, Johnsen, Dawn
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
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Tax Haven and Development Partner: Incoherence in Dutch Government Policies [PDF]
This paper focuses on a relatively new issue in the debate on policy coherence for development: the incoherence between tax and aid policies, using a case study of the Netherlands as illustration.
Van Dijk, Michiel, Weyzig, Francis
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