Every year, up to US$45 billion are transferred from public budgets to manufacturing industry through support programmes in OECD countries. It is essential to perceive the significance of such support if we are to understand the role it plays in structural adjustment strategies and the...

The OECD Global Forum on Competition debated Competition, State aids and Subsidies in February 2010. This document includes an executive summary of the debate and the meeting’s documentation: an analytical note by the OECD Secretariat, written submissions from Argentina, Croatia, Egypt, the...

The OECD Competition Committee debated competition policy in subsidies and state aid in February 2001. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note by the OECD, written submissions from the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Commission,...

This report examines the approaches adopted in 23 OECD and EU countries for evaluating the performance and cost-effectiveness of publicly supported credit guarantee programmes for SMEs. It finds that some evaluations are conducted using rigorous stateof-the art policy evaluation approaches which...

This dataset reports spending programmes and tax breaks in Germany that encourage the consumption or production of fossil fuels. These include measures that reduce prices for consumers, as well as those that lower exploration and exploitation costs for oil and gas companies.

This dataset reports spending programmes and tax breaks in Germany that encourage the consumption or production of fossil fuels. These include measures that reduce prices for consumers, as well as those that lower exploration and exploitation costs for oil and gas companies.

This dataset reports spending programmes and tax breaks in Germany that encourage the consumption or production of fossil fuels. These include measures that reduce prices for consumers, as well as those that lower exploration and exploitation costs for oil and gas companies.

This dataset reports spending programmes and tax breaks in Germany that encourage the consumption or production of fossil fuels. These include measures that reduce prices for consumers, as well as those that lower exploration and exploitation costs for oil and gas companies.