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Lifting the veil on perverse subsidies

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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.

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  1. Norman Myers is at Green College, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HG, UK

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Myers, N. Lifting the veil on perverse subsidies. Nature 392, 327–328 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/32761

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