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Perverse subsidies

tax $s undercutting our economies and environments alike

by Norman Myers, Jennifer Kent

SubsidiesEnvironmental degradationEnvironmental economicsInternational economicsThe EnvironmentUnited StatesDevelopment - Sustainable DevelopmentBusiness & Economics

This report documents the problem of perverse subsidies, definable here as exerting adverse effects on both the economy and the environment. If perverse subsidies amount to a sizeable proportion of subsidies overall, they exert a significantly distortive impact on the global economy.

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