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| Publisher | : OECD |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2005-08-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Subsidies are pervasive throughout OECD countries and worldwide. Every year, OECD countries transfer at least USD 400 billion to different economic sectors. Much of this support is potentially environmentally harmful. Reforming environmentally harmful subsidies is a significant policy challenge facing OECD countries. However, untangling and assessing the effects of subsidies on the environment is a complex task. A systematic approach is required to ensure that appropriate policies are developed and the benefits of reform fully realised. This report presents sectoral analyses on agriculture, fisheries, water, energy and transport. It proposes a checklist approach to identifying and assessing environmentally harmful subsidies. It also identifies the key tensions and conflicts that are likely to influence subsidy policy making. Can the political and economic impediments to subsidy reform be overcome? This book concludes with a discussion of politically feasible subsidy reform strategies. FURTHER READING Environmentally Harmful Subsidies: Policy Issues and Challenges (OECD, 2003)
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2005-08-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9264012052 |
This book discusses politically-feasible reform strategies that can be used to combat environmentally harmful subsidies.
| Author | : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| Publisher | : OECD |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2003-09-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
This publications contains four papers presented at an OECD workshop, held in November 2002, to discuss the identification, measurement and analysis of environmentally harmful subsidies, together with a summary of key conclusions reached. Issues considered include: the impact of subsidies on sustainable development and developing countries; the current state of knowledge regarding measuring and classifying subsides across sectors; and developing a methodology for ranking subsidies according to their potential environmental impact.
| Author | : Mr.Carlo A Sdralevich |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2014-07-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1498350437 |
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries price subsidies are common, especially on food and fuels. However, these are neither well targeted nor cost effective as a social protection tool, often benefiting mainly the better off instead of the poor and vulnerable. This paper explores the challenges of replacing generalized price subsidies with more equitable social safety net instruments, including the short-term inflationary effects, and describes the features of successful subsidy reforms.
| Author | : Jakob Skovgaard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2018-08-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108416799 |
This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access.
| Author | : Stephane Hallegatte |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2015-11-23 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1464806748 |
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
| Author | : Mr.Benedict J. Clements |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1484339169 |
Energy subsidies are aimed at protecting consumers, however, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. This book provides the most comprehensive estimates of energy subsidies currently available for 176 countries and an analysis of “how to do” energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies undertaken by the IMF staff and analyses carried out by other institutions.
| Author | : Strange Tracey |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2008-12-02 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9264055746 |
A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.
| Author | : Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne |
| Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2013-08-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1484366549 |
The reform of energy subsidies is an important but challenging issue for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. There is a relatively large theoretical and empirical literature on this issue. While this paper relies on that literature, too, it tailors its discussion to SSA countries to respond to the following questions: Why it is important to reduce energy subsidies? What are the difficulties involved in energy subsidy reform? How best can a subsidy reform be implemented? This paper uses various sources of information on SSA countries: quantitative assessments, surveys, and individual (but standardized) case studies.
| Author | : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group II. |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521634557 |
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
