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How to Set up an Effective Food Tax?; Comment on “Food Taxes: A New Holy Grail?”

Whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. Excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

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how to set up an effective food tax?; comment on “food taxes: a new holy grail?”

whereas public information campaigns have failed to reverse the rising trend in obesity, economists support food taxes as they suggest they can force individuals to change their eating behavior and make the agro-food industry think more about healthy food products. excise taxes based on the unhealthy nutrient content would be more effective since they impact more on unhealthy food products than...

Building a Configurable Publish/Subscribe Notification Service

The convergence of technologies and information-driven applications require a middleware that support data streams. This middleware needs to interpret, aggregate, filter and analyze streams of messages usually in a distributed environment to adequately make messages flush from any origin to interested destinations. Publish/Subscribe (pub/sub) middleware basically deals with these issues decoupl...