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Industrial subsidies should ideally be measured in ways that permit comparisons across subsidy instruments and countries, and that facilitate subsequent economic analysis of the effects of subsidisation. This paper deals with a number of conceptual issues that arise from these requirements. It first covers some definitional issues, concluding that subsidies should be measured broadly to include a wide range of instruments and both direct and indirect subsidy schemes. The paper then discusses measurement concepts for a range of instruments available to governments ...

Idéalement, les subventions industrielles devraient être mesurées de manière à permettre des comparaisons entre pays et types de subvention et à faciliter l'analyse économique de leurs effets. Cet article traite d'un certain nombre de problèmes conceptuels que pose ce double objectif. Il examine en premier lieu quelques questions de définition, en concluant que la mesure des subventions devrait inclure une large gamme d'instruments et prendre en compte aussi bien les programmes de subvention directe qu'indirecte. Le papier analyse ensuite les problèmes de mesure pour un ensemble d'instruments dont disposent les gouvernements ...

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Paper provided by OECD, Economics Department in its series OECD Economics Department Working Papers with number 75.

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