Should We Put a Thin Subsidy on the Policy Table in the Fight against Obesity?
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- Grace Lordan & John Quiggin, 2011. "Should we put a thin subsidy on the policy table in the fight against obesity-?," Discussion Papers Series 417, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
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fat tax; thin subsidy; obesity; sugar sweetened beverages; soda tax; artificially sweetened beverages;All these keywords.
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