CIAO DATE: 03/2015
September 2014
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
The use of subsidies to attract investment costs government billions of dollars annually, making regulation urgent. While comprehensive limitations such as the EU’s are not likely soon, we should improve transparency, have major stakeholders promote incentive rules within preferential trade areas, strengthen WTO notifications, and ban relocation subsidies where possible.
Resource link: How to deal with the growing incentives competition [PDF] - 184K