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Healthy Choices

Some key insights from the 2010 OECD Health Ministerial Meeting

  • “[…] fiscal measures aimed specifically to change behavior are complex to design and enforce; their impact may be unpredictable as the price elasticity of demand varies across individuals and population groups; they can bear more heavily on low-income groups than on those with higher incomes, and substitution effects are not always obvious”.

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Ineffective consumer behaviour, Taxes unfair, What others say: experts, OECD