Tobacconomics Research World Tour: Fourth Stop—Bangladesh
The last stop on our research tour is Dhaka, Bangladesh. On April 7th, one of our think tank partners in Bangladesh, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), hosted a workshop for policy makers, the media, academics and civil society stakeholders about their research on the economics of tobacco taxation in the country. Current... Read More about Tobacconomics Research World Tour: Fourth Stop—BangladeshPodcast: Dr. Frank Chaloupka on the Economics of Tobacco Taxes
This is an episode in the series, 'Upstream Public Health,' from the Thinking Upstream podcast. In this episode, Frank Chaloupka discusses the economics of tobacco taxes. Listen to the entire podcast here. Read More about Podcast: Dr. Frank Chaloupka on the Economics of Tobacco TaxesTobacconomics Research World Tour: Third Stop—Romania
The next stop on our research tour is Bucharest, Romania. From March 27-29th Tobacconomics team members participated in the 4th International Conference of the European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention (ENSP). There, we were joined by seven of our think tank partners in the Southeastern Europe (SEE) consortium, which is led by t... Read More about Tobacconomics Research World Tour: Third Stop—RomaniaTobacconomics Research World Tour: Second stop—Indonesia
Last week, we took you along with us on our trip to Karachi, Pakistan, for SPDC’s seminar on the “Macroeconomic Impacts of Tobacco Use in Pakistan.” This week, we will be discussing a recent event organized by our partner, Prakarsa, in Jakarta, Indonesia, held on March 27th. The purpose of this meeting was to launch and present thei... Read More about Tobacconomics Research World Tour: Second stop—IndonesiaTobacconomics Research World Tour: First stop—Pakistan
During the month of April, we’ll be taking a world tour of recent research in Pakistan; Indonesia; Romania; Chile; and Bangladesh—all delivered by Tobacconomics think tank partners. In last month’s series, we explored our approach to think tank capacity building through a series of blogs. This month, we’ll be sharing the proof of... Read More about Tobacconomics Research World Tour: First stop—PakistanThe Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity Building: Current Research from the First Year and the Way Forward, & Future Research
Over the past three weeks, we have taken to our blog to reflect on our first two years of the think tank capacity building project, “Accelerating Progress on Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” In this series, we have defined our purpose and direction for think tank capacity building. A few questions we initially aske... Read More about The Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity Building: Current Research from the First Year and the Way Forward, & Future ResearchThe Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity Building: Our Research Process
If you are a new reader to this series, we have already released the first two blogs: the ‘what’ and ‘why’, and the ‘who’, ‘where’, and ‘how’ on our approach to think tank capacity building. We discussed our reasoning for capacity building in the first place, what capacities we sought to build, and our scoping process... Read More about The Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity Building: Our Research ProcessThe Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity-Building: The ‘Who,’ ‘Where,’ and ‘How’
Last week, we released the first blog in this series about Tobacconomics’ approach to think tank capacity-building describing the “why” and the “what.” This week, we will be discussing our scoping process, and how we found the right partners. In other words, the “who” “where” and “how.” But first, a bit more about... Read More about The Tobacconomics Approach to Think Tank Capacity-Building: The ‘Who,’ ‘Where,’ and ‘How’