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August 11, 2014

Fossil Fuels
How to Make Fuel Subsidy Reform Succeed

Each year, governments around the world spend more than half a trillion dollars on fuel subsidies, crowding out productive investment in poverty alleviation and growth. CFR Senior Fellow Isobel Coleman proposes establishing a private-public partnership to help governments build the case for subsidy reform directly with citizens.

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Policy Innovation Memorandum by Isobel Coleman

September 18, 2024

Nigeria
A Conversation With Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar of Nigeria

Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar of Nigeria discusses emerging issues in the sub-region and across the continent, including Nigeria's foreign policy initiatives and challenges to economic and regional s…

Play Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar gives a speech during a press conference.
Virtual Event by Yusuf M. Tuggar and Ebenezer Obadare

August 12, 2014

International Organizations
New Paths to Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform?

Fossil fuel subsidies are an economic, environmental, and security scourge. Used mostly in developing countries and often defended as pro-poor, they are typically ineffective at combatting poverty, w…

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Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate

January 15, 2016

Americas
This Week in Markets and Democracy: Energy Subsidies, Human Rights in Supply Chains, and Poland’s Democracy Rollback

Oil Prices Plummet—Will Subsidies Follow? As crude prices fall below $30 a barrel, oil-producing states face mounting fiscal challenges. Saudi Arabia’s 2015 deficit neared $100 billion, roughly 15 p…

A driver waits to fill his car with fuel at a petrol station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 22, 2015 (Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser).
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

May 12, 2014

Corporate Governance
Policy Innovation Memo: How to Stop the State Subsidy Wars

The Renewing America Initiative is releasing today our new Policy Innovation Memo “Curtailing the Subsidy War Within the United States,” which I co-authored with Associate Director Rebecca Strauss. T…

A Tesla Motors Inc Model X is seen at Tesla's introduction of its new battery swapping program in Hawthorne, California (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

December 3, 2012

Corporate Governance
The State Subsidies War: Time to Settle Our Own Disputes

Two decades ago, the United States demanded that other countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) agree to significant restrictions on “trade distorting subsidies” of various sorts, such as gove…

A worker checks a shipment of outgoing boxes at the Amazon.com warehouse facility in New Castle, Delaware (Tim Shaffer/Courtesy Reuters). In 2011, Amazon received $7.5 million in subsidies from the State of Delaware.
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America