Detox Development

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dc.creatorDamania, Richard
dc.creatorBalseca, Esteban
dc.creatorde Fontaubert, Charlotte
dc.creatorGill, Joshua
dc.creatorKim, Kichan
dc.creatorRentschler, Jun
dc.creatorRuss, Jason
dc.creatorZaveri, Esha
dc.date2023-02-14T19:03:50Z
dc.date2023-03-06T15:57:18Z
dc.date2023-02-14T19:03:50Z
dc.date2023-03-06T15:57:18Z
dc.date2023-06-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:30:33Z
dc.descriptionClean 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.
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dc.identifier978-1-4648-1916-2
dc.identifierLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2022917355
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/39423
dc.identifier10.1596/978-1-4648-1916-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/404857
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC : World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectSUBSIDIES
dc.subjectCLEAN AIR
dc.subjectLAND
dc.subjectOCEANS
dc.titleDetox Development
dc.titleRepurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
dc.typeBook
dc.typeLivre
dc.typeLibro

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