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A Framework for National Alcohol Programmes in Developing Countries
Author(s) -
Curry Robert L.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1987.tb01537.x
Subject(s) - per capita , consumption (sociology) , developing country , remedial education , public economics , production (economics) , perspective (graphical) , order (exchange) , economic growth , business , economics , development economics , political science , environmental health , medicine , computer science , sociology , macroeconomics , social science , population , finance , artificial intelligence , law
Summary Beverage alcohol's per capita production and consumption have been rising throughout developing areas. Many of the countries involved have been previously free from the social, health and economic problems that are now accompanying the production and consumption growth. In order to conceptualize and deal with the problems, particularly from an economic perspective, there is need for an analytic framework that could serve as a basis for policy analysis. The effort herein is to provide such a framework, one that could assist policymakers in determining what, if any, remedial steps to take. Some steps that might be prudent to take from the perspective of improving levels of health and the means of development in poorer countries could be inconsistent with entrenched economic interests, both foreign and domestic. Such potential contradictions highlight the need for an appropriate analytic focus on the problems.