Numbers ranging from half a trillion to two trillion dollars have been cited in recent years for global subsidies for fossil fuels. How are these figures calculated and why are they so different? The most commonly used methods for measuring subsidies are the price-gap approach -- quantifying the gap between free-market reference prices and the prices charged to consumers -- the inventory approach, which constructs an inventory of government actions...
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2015/03/23
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Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas
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WPS7220
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2015/03/23
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Disclosed
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Fossil fuel subsidies : approaches and valuation
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