Posts Tagged ‘fossil fuel energy’
IISD & G SI paper on subsidy estimation: Measuring price subsidies using the price-gap approach: What does it leave out?
In the wake of India ’s move in June to reduce its fuel subsidies, and the IEA’s announcement that US$ 557 billion was spent on fossil-fuel subsidies by 37 of the world’s economies in 2008, the measurement of subsidies is a pressing and sensitive issue – what does it include and what does it omit? (more...)
