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Perverse subsidies

tax $s undercutting our economies and environments alike

by Norman Myers, Jennifer Kent · 1998

Cover of Perverse subsidies

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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