This report, based on the End Oil Aid database, quantifies the magnitude of subsidies from governments going to the oil and gas industry internationally via international financial institutions, often in the name of poverty alleviation.
Resources
Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth
Control of Iraq’s future oil wealth is being handed to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars.
Drilling into Debt: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Debt and Oil
Drilling into Debt is the first study to rigorously examine the relationship in between oil and debt.