Publication or article

Wolfgang Irrek, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy. Includes discussion of subsidies to nuclear liability in Europe. Posted with permission of the author.

(Word Document). Written by 10 NGOs: The Third World Network, Oxfam International, Public Services International, WWF International, The Center for International Environmental Law, Focus on the Global South, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, The Africa Trade Network, The International Gender and Trade Network, and The Tebtebba International Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights.

European Environmental Bureau with the assistance of its working group on Environmental Fiscal Reform. Position paper delineating various damaging subsidies within the EU, and pushing for their removal on fiscal and environmental grounds.

John R. Magnus. Journal of World Trade 38(6): 985-1047.

This is one of ten studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. It argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international trade will yield an extraordinarily high benefit to cost ratio.

MEASURE, 1987. (Detail on producer-subsidy equivalent calculations for energy). in Coal Prospects and Policies in IEA Countries, 1987 Review, International Energy Agency. Ron Steenblik, OECD. Discussion of methods and challenges associated with extending the PSE, long used in agriculture, to coal.

Energy Policy, v. 23, No. 6, pp. 483-84. Copyrighted material; unfortunately link is to abstract only.

The Best Practices are designed as a reference tool for member and non-member countries to use in order to increase the degree of budget transparency in their respective countries. This transparency is generally a prerequisite for subsidy reform.

Presented at OECD Workshop on Environmentally Harmful Subsidies, November 7-8, 2002. Discusses methods for measuring the impact of environmentally harmful subsidies.