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Felix Asante

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26 November 2020

Fiscal and Public Health Impact of a Change in Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ghana – Paper

This working paper predicts the fiscal and public health outcomes from a change in the excise tax structure for cigarettes in Ghana. More than 5,000 people are killed by diseases caused by tobacco every year in Ghana. Currently the country has a unitar …

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26 November 2020

Fiscal and Public Health Impact of a Change in Tobacco Excise Taxes in Ghana

Tobacco taxation creates a win-win policy for governments across the world – creating the fiscal space to raise revenue to finance development programmes, and at the same time decreasing tobacco use as a means of improving public health. This study pro …

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1 November 2008

Information Flow and Acquisition of Knowledge in Water Governance in the Upper East Region of Ghana

“This paper provides an assessment of information flows and the acquisition of knowledge in water governance of the Upper East Region, Ghana. These flows are patchy, often parallel, disconnected or slow. In many cases a great deal of information is gat …

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