Posted by Action for Economic Reforms | Feb 7, 2023 | Press Room |
“We have 6 million less smokers today because of tobacco taxes. This is equivalent to about 60,000 deaths prevented in 2022 alone. That’s a lot of lives saved, more than I think the medical community could think of saving in our...
Read MorePosted by Action for Economic Reforms | Feb 6, 2023 | Columns, Yellow Pad |
YELLOW PAD By Nepomuceno Malaluan In November 2022, I had the privilege of being the discussant of a paper by Dr. Helena Agnes Valderrama, professor at the University of the Philippines Virata School of Business, titled “The...
Read MorePosted by Action for Economic Reforms | Jan 29, 2023 | Columns, Yellow Pad |
Yellow Pad By Filomeno Sta. Ana III It was 10 years ago (to be exact, on Dec. 20, 2012) that the late President Benigno S. Aquino III signed into law the Sin Tax Reform. On the first day of 2013, the government implemented...
Read MorePosted by Action for Economic Reforms | Jan 23, 2023 | Columns, Yellow Pad |
Yellow Pad By Isabel Rodrigo As we approach three years since COVID-19 was declared an international emergency, we ought to examine how the pandemic has affected those at the margins, for whom the pandemic has taken a different...
Read MorePosted by Action for Economic Reforms | Jan 15, 2023 | Columns, Yellow Pad |
Yellow Pad By Pia Rodrigo On Dec. 6, 2022, the Department of Health (DoH), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), and the World Health Organization (WHO) published the results of the 2021 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)....
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