Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

The Resource Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

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Energy subsidies : lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

Title remainder

lessons learned in assessing their impact and designing policy reforms

Statement of responsibility

edited by Anja von Moltke, Colin McKee and Trevor Morgan ; with a foreword by Klaus Töpfer

Language

eng

Summary

The need to reform energy subsidies was one of the pressing issues highlighted at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many types of subsidy, especially those that encourage the production and use of fossil fuel, and other non-renewable forms of energy, are harmful to the environment. They can also have high financial and economic costs, and often only bring few benefits to the people for whom they are intended. The book provides an analytical framework which aims to set the scene for the detailed discussion of energy-subsidy issues at the country level. It considers how subsidies are defined, how they can be measured, how big they are and how their effects can be assessed. A more detailed discussion of methodological approaches to the assessment of the economic, environmental and social effects of subsidies and their reform is contained in the Annex

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

363.7

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

LC call number

HD9502

LC item number

.E54 2004eb

Literary form

non fiction

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