Taxing fat and subsiding healthy eating widens inequality [interview]

Laurent Muller () and Brown J.
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Laurent Muller: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble - Grenoble INP - Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019], INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Brown J.: Economist Newspaper Limited

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Abstract: In rich countries, people's diets are getting worse and they are getting fatter. Hence the increasing popularity of a "fat tax", to make unhealthy food cost more. Since Hungary led the charge in 2011 with a "chip tax" on fatty and sugary foods, other countries have followed. Britain is to join a long list next year.

Date: 2017-10-07
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Published in Economist -London- Economist Newspaper Limited-, 2017

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