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by dzhiurgis 60 days ago
> Just 8 percent of the 2020 subsidy reflects undercharging for supply costs (explicit subsidies)

So $400b. Still a lot.

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The majority of the subsidies are implicit, in the form of negative externalities that are not priced in.

But I really should locate a more recent version of this report...

https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/12/20/und...

In 2024 they found $725bn in explicit subsides, plus $6.7tn in implicit subsidies.