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Subsidies and Sustainable Rural Energy Services: Can We Create Incentives Without Distorting Markets?

Douglas F. Barnes and Jonathan Halpern, The World Bank. Paper analyzes the difficulties in trying to extend basic energy services to poor or remote populations in an efficient manner. They note many examples where substantial funding has subsidized wealthier members of the population rather than the poor as originally planned.

Memorandum on the Need to Improve Internal Transparency and Participation in the WTO

(Word Document). Written by 10 NGOs: The Third World Network, Oxfam International, Public Services International, WWF International, The Center for International Environmental Law, Focus on the Global South, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, The Africa Trade Network, The International Gender and Trade Network, and The Tebtebba International Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights.

NGO Guidelines for Promoting National Reforms of Environmentally Harmful Subsidies

European Environmental Bureau with the assistance of its working group on Environmental Tax Reform.  Guidance manual for NGOs on why they should promote subsidy reform and strategies for doing so successfully.  Includes brief overviews of environmentally harmful subsidies in HUNGARY, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND, AND GERMANY.