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The potential impact of taxing sugar drinks on health inequality in Indonesia.

Emily Jane BourkeJacob Lennert Veerman
Published in: BMJ global health (2018)
Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation can help to reduce the number of overweight and obese, and prevent over a million cases of diabetes in Indonesia. Higher income groups would benefit more than lower income groups. The tax would raise $920 million in the first year and $27.3 billion over 25 years.
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