Perverse subsidies

By Jennifer Kent, Norman Myers

Subjects: Environmental degradation, Government spending policy, Business/Economics, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Economie de l'environnement, Environmental economics, Public Policy - General, Environmental policy, united states, Development - Sustainable Development, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General, Business & Economics, Environnement, International economics, Environmental, Politics / Current Events, Subsidies, United States, Degradation, The Environment, Public Policy - Economic Policy, Subventions, Economic policy

Description: 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.