Browsing Reports by Author "van Walbeek, Corne"

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Are the tobacco industry’s claims about illicit trade credible?

Author: van Walbeek, Corne; Shai, Lerato Date: 28 May 2015 Background The tobacco industry claims that illicit cigarette trade in South Africa is high and rising. This is often used as an argument not to increase the tobacco excise tax. Objectives To determine how the industry’s estimates of the ... Read more
Are the tobacco industry’s claims about the size of the illicit cigarette market credible? The case of South Africa

Author: van Walbeek, Corne; Shai, Lerato Date: 28 May 2015 Background The tobacco industry claims that illicit cigarette trade in South Africa is high and rising. This is often used as an argument not to increase the tobacco excise tax or to regulate tobacco products. Objectives To determine how ... Read more
Assessing the effectiveness of academic development programmes: A statistical analysis of graduation rates across three programmes

Author: Smith, Leonard; Case, Jenni; van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 This article reports on a study that used statistical analysis to estimate the impact of the first-year academic development (AD) courses offered by three diverse AD programmes (in the commerce, engineering and science faculties) at the same ... Read more
Determinants of smoking initiation in South Africa

Author: Vellios, Nicole; van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 This paper investigates the individual and household variables that influence the decision to start smoking. The data was drawn from wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of 2008 and the analysis was performed using survival ... Read more
How accurate are South African macroeconomic forecasts?

Author: van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 This paper considers the ex post accuracy of two published sets of macroeconomic forecasts: the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU's) Country Report and the "Economist of the Year" consensus forecast, sponsored by Media 24. Root weighted mean ... Read more
Measuring changes in the illicit cigarette market using government revenue data: the example of South Africa

Author: van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 The tobacco industry claims that illicit trade in cigarettes has increased sharply since the 1990s and that government has lost substantial tax revenue. Our studies objectives were: (1) To determine whether cigarette excise tax revenue has ... Read more
The impact of Cigarette Excise Tax Increases and Harmonisation in the East African Community

Author: Posen, Jodie; van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 This paper proposes a model that can be used to predict the likely impacts of tobacco tax increases and harmonisation in the East African Community. The model has five sections, one for each EAC country. These sections consider different ... Read more
Tobacco control in Namibia: The importance of government capacity, media coverage, and industry interference

Author: Tam, Jamie; van Walbeek, Corne Date: 28 May 2015 BACKGROUND: Namibia is typical of low-income and middle-income countries with growing tobacco use, but with limited capacity to impose comprehensive tobacco control legislation. Despite initiating dialogue on national tobacco control policy ... Read more

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