Will the next generation of preferential trade and investment agreements undermine prevention of noncommunicable diseases? A prospective policy analysis of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement

Anne Marie Thow, Wendy Snowdon, Ronald Labonté, Deborah Gleeson, David Stuckler, Libby Hattersley, Ashley Schram, Adrian Kay and Sharon Friel

Health Policy, 2015, vol. 119, issue 1, 88-96

Abstract: The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is one of a new generation of ‘deep’ preferential trade and investment agreements that will extend many of the provisions seen in previous agreements. This paper presents a prospective policy analysis of the likely text of the TPPA, with reference to nutrition policy space. Specifically, we analyse how the TPPA may constrain governments’ policy space to implement the ‘policy options for promoting a healthy diet’ in the World Health Organization's Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) 2013–2020.

Keywords: Nutrition; Trade; Policy analysis; Policy space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.08.002

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