Sentences with phrase «fewer subsidies»

There's a lot of it, and it's inexpensive compared to healthier foods like vegetables, for which few subsidies are offered.

Highly open to free trade, relatively few subsidies to businesses, but a high social safety net ensuring that economic efficiency doesn't mean poverty for those caught on the wrong side of technological and social change.

While subsidies have likely increased domestic production, they've also diverted capital from more productive activities (such as energy efficiency) and constrained the growth of renewable energy (solar and wind enjoy fewer subsidies and, generally, receive much less preferential political treatment).

In an article for Slate, Bjørn Lomborg calls for fewer subsidies and more R&D funding for renewable energy.

Development economics is at its best when there are few subsidies — economics in the developing world is the same as it is here, only more so.

· Fewer subsidies: All energy systems are subsidized, and wind is no exception.