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