Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
Subtitle: Challenges for Reform
Publisher: Organization for Economic
Published: August 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9789264012042
Subjects: Reference - General; Business & Economics; Economic aspects; Environmental aspects; Social aspects; Subsidies; Business/Economics
Description: Subsidies are pervasive throughout OECD countries and much of this support is potentially harmful environmentally. This report presents sectoral analyses on agriculture, fisheries, water, energy and transport, proposing 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. The book concludes with a discussion of politically feasible subsidy reform strategies.