Energy Subsidy Reform: Lessons and Implications
September 13, 2013
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Energy subsidies are aimed at protecting consumers, however, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. This book provides the most comprehensive estimates of energy subsidies currently available for 176 countries and an analysis of “how to do” energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies undertaken by the IMF staff and analyses carried out by other institutions.
Subject: Energy pricing, Energy subsidies, Expenditure, Fuel prices, Inflation, Prices, Tariffs, Taxes
Keywords: Africa, BOOK, Caribbean, cost-recovery price, Energy pricing, Energy subsidies, enterprise, Fuel prices, Global, government, Inflation, Middle East, price, producer subsidy, Sub-Saharan Africa, subsidy, subsidy reform, supply cost, Tariffs, transfer program
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194
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