Subsidies

A subsidy or government incentive is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy. Although commonly extended from the government, the term subsidy can relate to any type of support – for example from NGOs or as implicit subsidies. Subsidies come in various forms including: direct (cash grants, interest-free loans) and indirect (tax breaks, insurance, low-interest loans, accelerated depreciation, rent rebates).Furthermore, they can be broad or narrow, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. The most common forms of subsidies are those to the …

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WHO: World Health Organization · 21 November 2024 English

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increased to 14.5% of GDP in 2022 due to blanket subsidies for energy and food commodities as well as sustained


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 20 November 2024 Spanish

Este capítulo es un resúmen de un informe de GAIA que extrae del estudio LBNL recomendaciones para políticas.23 El ciclo de vida completo del plástico se inicia con la extracción …

Consulting (2024). Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap: Phase 1 Report. (Informe de la Fase I de del INC3], Junio 2023, y CIEL’s report Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production [Informe del CIEL sobre org/resource/2023/10/qunos-inc-3-joint-submission-iucn-plastic-subsidies https://quno.org/resource/2023/10/qunos-inc-3 ucn-plastic-subsidies https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tackling-Subsidies-for-Plastic-Production_FINAL ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tackling-Subsidies-for-Plastic-Production_FINAL.pdf http://www.no-burn


WHO: World Health Organization · 20 November 2024 English

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private sector involvement by price manipulation, subsidies, co-payments and regulation. Improve the quality manipulating the price of drugs, such as through subsidies and co-payments, as well as through regulation


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 20 November 2024 French

Dans le cadre du traité sur les plastiques, les entreprises qui innovent dans le domaine de la réutilisation (notamment de la recharge) et de la réparation bénéficieront de la croissance …

Consulting (2024). Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap: Phase 1 Report. GAIA | 2024 - www.no-burn en juin 2023 et le rapport du CIEL Tackling Subsidies for Plastic Production, d’octobre 2023. GAIA | org/resource/2023/10/qunos-inc-3-joint-submission-iucn-plastic-subsidies https://quno.org/resource/2023/10/qunos-inc-3 ucn-plastic-subsidies https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tackling-Subsidies-for-Plastic-Production_FINAL ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Tackling-Subsidies-for-Plastic-Production_FINAL.pdf http://www.no-burn


GAIA: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives · 20 November 2024 English

This would be important in order to complete the drafting and agreement on treaty text including all the core obligations needed to end plastic pollution across the life cycle of …

disclosure and reporting of all plastic production subsidies to establish a global inventory and robust basis plastic production subsidies including direct (e.g. tax credits, loans) and indirect subsidies (e.g. subsidized plastic production subsidies, amounting to US$ 30 billion annually just for direct subsidies in the top 15 Consulting (2024). Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap: Phase 1 Report. 39WWF& Dalberg Advisors (2021) out obligations. End primary plastic production subsidies, both direct and indirect (including any type


ETF: European Training Foundation · 15 November 2024 English

The contents of the report are the sole responsibility of the ETF and do not necessarily reflect the views of the EU institutions. [...] As the monitoring targets are designed …

other skill development initiatives, employment subsidies, direct job creation, start-up support or other Employment Employment Education Elementary mediation subsidies Accommodation occupations Counselling Training


IMF: International Monetary Fund · 14 November 2024 English

Pakistan’s tight fiscal situation will require strong control over the budget in coming years. This report provides recommendations on steps to strengthen the country’s fiscal institutions to deliver a more …

compounded by policy slippages including unbudgeted subsidies, and delays in implementing revenue measures. situation. In FY23, unplanned and untargeted subsidies, and delays in rolling out planned revenue measures tensions, a relief package provided generous subsidies on petrol and diesel, lowered electricity tariffs public wages and pensions, and additional food subsidies. 6. As a result, there have been substantial Finance Wing provides advice on proposals for new subsidies for the power sector or transfers to support loss-making


IADB: Inter-American Development Bank · 14 November 2024 English

El Monitor de Comercio e Integración 2024 analiza la evolución de América Latina y el Caribe en el nuevo contexto global, comparando la región con el resto del mundo y …

for analyses of the global trade impacts of subsidies. 8 The White House (2024). 9 European Commission


Chatham House · 14 November 2024 English

as hydrocarbon subsidies; urgent steps must be taken by central banks, financial regulators and finance ministries to remove such incentives and, where possible, to repurpose the subsidies. A carefully calibrated

other perverse incentives such as hydrocarbon subsidies; urgent steps must be taken by central banks incentives and, where possible, to repurpose the subsidies. — A carefully calibrated political process cheaper low-carbon technologies, and by government subsidies and regulation. Indeed, some leading experts include the presence of distorting fossil fuel subsidies, lack of information on climate risks, and the limate-finance. 47 The introduction of large subsidies for green investment in advanced economies, notably


World Bank Group · 14 November 2024 English

The Tunisian economy experienced a modest growth of 0.6 percent in the first half of 2024, following zero growth in 2023. By the end of 2024, Tunisia is projected to …

expenditure growth to 8.1 percent at the same pace as subsidies and transfers (3 percent of GDP). Capital expenditures somewhat to 6.0 per cent of GDP in 2024, as subsidies and wage bill are constrained in real terms and


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