Damania, Richard and Balseca, Esteban and Fontaubert, Charlotte de and Gill, Joshua and Kim, Kichan and Rentschler, Jun and Russ, Jason and Zaveri, Esha (2023) Detox development: Repurposing environmentally harmful subsidies. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), The World Bank (WB), Washington. ISBN 978-1-4648-1916-2
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Clean air, land, and oceans are critical for human health and nutrition and underpin much of the world’s economy. Yet they suffer from degradation, poor management, and overuse due to government subsidies. Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies examines the impact of subsidies on these foundational natural assets. Explicit and implicit subsidies— estimated to exceed US$7 trillion per year—not only promote inefficiencies but also cause much environmental harm. Poor air quality is responsible for approximately 1 in 5 deaths globally. And as the new analyses in this report show, a significant number of these deaths can be attributed to fossil fuel subsidies. Agriculture is the largest user of land worldwide, feeding the world and employing 1 billion people, including 78 percent of the world’s poor. But it is subsidized in ways that promote inefficiency, inequity, and unsustainability. Subsidies are shown to drive the deterioration of water quality and increase water scarcity by incentivizing overextraction. In addition, they are responsible for 14 percent of annual deforestation, incentivizing the production of crops that are cultivated near forests. These subsidies are also implicated in the spread of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, especially malaria. Finally, oceans support the world’s fisheries and supply about 3 billion people with almost 20 percent of their protein intake from animals. Yet they are in a collective state of crisis, with more than 34 percent of fisheries overfished, exacerbated by open-access regimes and capacity-increasing subsidies. Although the literature on subsidies is large, this report fills significant knowledge gaps using new data and methods. In doing so, it enhances understanding of the scale and impact of subsidies and offers solutions to reform or repurpose them in efficient and equitable ways. The aim is to enhance understanding of the magnitude, consequences, and drivers of policy successes and failures in order to render reforms more achievable.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Keywords: | Environment, Sustainable Development, Fisheries Subsidies, Natural Resources, Reports, Poverty, Air Pollution, Fuel, Health, Nutrition, Fisheries Policy, Economic Impact, Deforestation, Socio-economic Aspects, Sustainable Development, Nutrition, Climate Change, |
| Subjects: | Fisheries Trade |
| Depositing User: | Vivek D ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2023 04:09 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2023 04:12 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/19852 |
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