8-12 July 2019: Public Economics Capacity Building Programme Winter School
Corné van Walbeek, Sam Filby, and Laura Rossouw attended and taught at the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC – an agency of National Treasury) Public Economics Capacity Building Programme Winter School. They contributed to the “Taxes, user charges and behavioural change” stream, giving presentations on sugar, tobacco, and alcohol tax policies in South Africa and globally:
- Sugar Tax: Lessons from International Experience for Developing Countries by Corné van Walbeek
- Designing tobacco and alcohol taxes: International experience by Samantha Filby
2019: Illicit Trade presentations:
- Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products In Low- and Middle-Income Countries; Hana Ross - July 16, 2019
- The Illicit Cigarette Market in Georgia; Hana Ross - September 17, 2019
- Do Higher Tobacco Taxes Lead to Illicit Cigarettes Trade? Hana Ross - 19 September, 2019
- Consumption of legal and illegal cigarettes in The Gambia; Hana Ross - 2019
27 May 2015: SALDRU Seminar
Corné van Walbeek, Evan Blecher, Hana Ross and Nicole Vellios presented "About the Economics of Tobacco Control Project" as part of a SALDRU presentation.
2012: 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Singapore
- Effect of increasing cigarette prices on smoking patterns across the income spectrum, some evidence from South Africa
- Excise tax increases, cigarette consumption and government revenue: A win-win-win situation in South Africa
- Non-price demand reduction measures
- The illicit trade in cigarettes and excise revenue data
2012: World Bank/SADC Conference, Gaborone
South African experience with tobacco taxation: Lessons learned and relevance for SADC