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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 18, 2012
Nigeria
Nigeria: Beyond the Fuel Subsidy
In the shameless promotion category, I did an article, “The End of Nigeria’s Strike May Not Calm Oil Markets,” that appeared Monday in the electronic version of Foreign Affairs. It looks at the demon…
January 3, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigera’s "War on Terror" and the Fuel Subsidy Ends
A protester walks past burning tyres while biting a lighter during a rally against fuel subsidy removal on Ikorodu road in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos January 3, 2012. (Akintunde Akinleye/Cour…
December 14, 2012
Corporate Governance
The Folly of State Subsidies, Part Two
A new study released this week by the Pew Center for the States is further proof of the folly of state tax incentives as a way to attract job-creating business – though in its usual even-handed fashi…
August 12, 2014
Energy and Environment
How to Make Fuel Subsidy Reform Succeed
A few weeks ago, Yemen’s government took the bold – some might say foolhardy – step of winding down a fuel subsidy program that was costing it billions of dollars. Overnight, fuel prices in the count…
December 20, 2011
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy Is More than Economics
Nigerian workers in protest in Lagos March 21, 2001. (George Esiri/Courtesy Reuters) Nigeria has long subsidized fuel for its citizens. The cost of the subsidy is high, and economists and the intern…
