Commentary
Nature 392, 327-328 (26 March 1998) | doi:10.1038/32761
Lifting the veil on perverse subsidies
Norman Myers1
- Norman Myers is at Green College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HG, UK.
Abstract
Many government subsidies serve useful purposes, but others adversely affect the economy and the environment. A forthcoming report suggests that governments could profit from scrapping such 'perverse' subsidies.