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With phase II of the FAME scheme coming to an end next year, policy-level discussions around what the next set of subsidies could look like have started.

In recent years, a concerted political effort has been made at national and EU level to promote the consumption of healthy foods. The European Commission (EC) expressed a need for a harmonized, mandatory front-of-pack nutrition labelling (FOPL) system at EU level. The EC intends to adopt the proposal by the end of 2022. Our research work seeks to understand the public discourse on FOPL in the EU through Twitter, by content analysis of tweets, sentiment analysis and mapping network characteristic...

The war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia have intensified the debate on the economic repercussions of a shift in global trade policy focus from mutual economic benefits of open trade policies to geopolitical considerations limiting interdependence. This column finds that a potential decoupling of the global trading system into two blocs – a US-centric and a

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Dr Dionysia Katelouzou wins international award for her research on corporate governance and stewardship. Dr Dionysia Katelouzou Dr Dionysia

Rena Conti, Ernst Berndt, David Howard Across low- and middle-income countries, the prices of essential medicines, such as cancer treatments, HIV antiretrovirals, and antibiotics, display substantial variations, with the locally observed prices sometimes being many times higher than the lowest international reference level for generic equivalents. Chalkidou et al. (2020) show that some purchasers in low- and middle-income countries pay up to 30 times the minimum international reference price fo...