Presentations
8-12 July 2019: 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
27 May 2015: About the ETC Project SALDRU presentation
The following lecture slides have been presented at various conferences over the years by Corné van Walbeek:
- 12th WCTOH, Helsinki, (2003) Excise taxes as a mechanism for tobacco control South Africa’s experience
- UCT Departmental seminar, (2005) Industry responses to the rapid excise tax increases in South Africa since 1994
- 13th WCTOH, Washington, (2006) Increasing cigarette taxes and prices as a tobacco control strategy in South Africa and Jamaica
- Do tax increases on tobacco hurt the poor Some findings from South Africa, 2006
- African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), Cape Town, 2007
15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Singapore, 2012:
- 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
World Bank/SADC Conference, Gaborone, (2012) South African experience with tobacco taxation: Lessons learned and relevance for SADC
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