Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity
Search
Filters:
Experts
Facet Toggle
Topics
Facet Toggle
Content Type
Facet Toggle
Publication Type
Facet Toggle
Article Type
Facet Toggle
Event Type
Facet Toggle
Time Frame
Facet Toggle
Time Frame
Facet Toggle
Blog Post
November 19, 2024
A new CGD note published today explores the financial performance of big tobacco companies, alongside alcohol and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) industries, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic; we find that financial results have been strong, especially for tobacco companies, and that the argumen...
Blog Post
October 21, 2024
What if there was a policy that could both save lives and raise revenue to strengthen health systems and other social sectors? The high-level Task Force on Fiscal Policy for Health, co-chaired by Mike Bloomberg, Mia Amor Mottley, and Larry Summers, of which CGD is secretariat, found that raising hea...
Blog Post
July 17, 2024
With the interplay between the COVID-19 pandemic; wars in Ukraine, Africa, and the Middle East; and energy, climate, and cost-of-living crises, we are living through a polycrisis, where “disparate crises interact such that the overall impact far exceeds the sum of each part.” In the face this, count...
POLICY PAPERS
July 17, 2024
Health systems, weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, lack sufficient financing to rebuild and respond to the surging non-communicable diseases epidemic caused by uncontrolled risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and sugar consumption. Opportunities to raise domestic resources are limited and debt bu...
Blog Post
June 05, 2024
Amidst stagnating levels of development assistance for health, questions about the future of vertical programs such as PEPFAR, lackluster performance on the Sustainable Development Goal for health, and growing calls to address excessive fragmentation in global health, the global health community is ...
Blog Post
October 31, 2022
Many premature deaths from non-communicable diseases can be prevented if countries enact forceful measures to reduce the risk of their citizens falling prey to these diseases. Making it more expensive to consume tobacco, health-harming alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages is key to governments ach...
Blog Post
July 20, 2022
In this blog, I examine why policymakers should ensure that inflation does not erode corrective taxes on killer products and make them more affordable. Using a survey of recent health tax measures, I show that some countries have ensured that health taxes are stepped up while most have hesitated, an...
WORKING PAPERS
April 20, 2022
In developing Asia there is potential for higher corrective taxes to help prevent many non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and contribute revenue. The productivity loss from death and disability from alcohol, tobacco and diets high in sugar-sweetened beverages in purchasing power parity dollars is PPP$...
CGD NOTES
March 03, 2022
Corrective taxes on harmful products—health taxes—are a cost-effective way to save lives and generate additional tax revenue. In new research, we show that health tax measures during COVID-19 have diminished in number and strength because the international community has mobilized additional, largely...