List of all GSI Publications

This page lists all of the publications hosted on GSI's website.

It contains the following themes:

1. Reports

  1. fossil-fuel subsidies
  2. biofuel subsidies
  3. irrigation subsidies
  4. investment incentives
  5. trade-related research

2. Policy briefs

3. Media and outreach

4. Resources

5. Subsidy Watch issues

 
Reports
a. fossil-fuel subsidies

November 2010

Tax and royalty-related subsidies to oil extraction from high-cost fields: A study of Brazil, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and the United States

Fossil Fuels – At What Cost? Government support for upstream oil activities in three Canadian provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador and the related Summary of Key Findings

October 2010

Lessons Learned from Indonesia’s Attempts to Reform Fossil-Fuel Subsidies

Fossil Fuels – At What Cost? Government support for upstream oil and gas activities in Indonesia

August 2010

Mapping the Characteristics of Producer Subsidies: A review of pilot country studies

July 2010

Increasing the Momentum of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A roadmap for international cooperation

 
June 2010

Lessons Learned from Brazil’s Experience with Fossil-Fuel Subsidies and their Reform

April 2010

Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform. A summary of key findings.

Strategies for Reforming Fossil-Fuel Subsidies: Practical lessons from Ghana, France and Senegal

Gaining Traction: The importance of transparency in accelerating the reform of fossil-fuel subsidies

March 2010

Lessons Learned from Attempts to Reform India's Kerosene Subsidy

Lessons Learned from the Restructuring of Poland's Coal-mining Industry

The Effects of Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: A review of modelling and empirical studies

October 2009

The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies

July 2007

Feasibility Study for "Revealing the Scale of Subsidies to Fossil Fuels"

b. biofuel subsidies

July 2010

Biofuels – At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the European Union – 2010 Update 

April 2009

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in Canada

December 2008

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in Indonesia

November 2008

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in China

October 2008

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in Switzerland: 2008 Update

September 2008

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for biodiesel in Malaysia

April 2008

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in Australia

October 2007

Biofuels - at What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the European Union

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States - 2007 Update

September 2007

Biofuels - At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in selected OECD countries

October 2006

Biofuels -At What Cost? Government support for ethanol and biodiesel in the United States

c. irrigation subsidies

July 2010

Measuring irrigation subsidies in Spain – an application of the GSI Method for quantifying subsidies 

January 2009

The GSIs Method for Quantifying Irrigation Subsidies

June 2008

Towards a Common Methodology for Measuring Irrigation Subsidies

d. investment incentives

November 2007

Investment Incentives: Growing use, uncertain benefits, uneven controls. An exploration of government measures to attract investment

e. Trade-related research

April 2008

WTO Subsidy Notifications: Assessing German subsidies under the GSI notification template proposed for the WTO

February 2007

A new template for notifying subsidies to the WTO

June 2006

Is Trade Pessimism Justified? Opening the black box of trade modeling

 
Policy Briefs
December 2010

Corruption and fraud in agricultural and energy subsidies: identifying the key issues

October 2010

Delivering on G-20 Commitments: The path to fossil-fuel subsidy reform

September 2010

Measuring Irrigation Subsidies: Policy recommendations from a Spanish case study

July 2010

A How-to Guide: Measuring subsidies to fossil-fuel producers

June 2010

Delivering on the G-20 commitment to reform fossil-fuel subsidies: essential outcomes from Toronto

March 2010

Defining Fossil-fuel Subsidies for the G-20: which approach is best?

"Saving Lives, Buying Time": lessons in good subsidy design from the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm)

December 2009

Building Fossil-Fuel Subsidy Reform: Have we got all theblocks? (COP 15 special edition)

Car-scrapping Schemes: An effective economic rescue policy?

October 2009

Achieving the G-20 Call to Phase Out Subsidies to Fossil Fuels

 
Media and outreach
November 2009

Press Release: G-20 wastes hundreds of billions on perverse fossil-fuel subsidies, says global coalition

Letter from the Green Economy Coalition to G-20 Ministers of Finance

October 2008

Press Selections: Sample coverage of the Global Subsidies Initiative

 
Resources
June 2010

 Subsidy Estimation: A survey of current practice

April 2010

Relative Subsidies to Energy Sources: GSI estimates

2006

A Subsidy Primer

 
Subsidy Watch issues