IMF Staff Country Reports

Libya: Selected Issues

May 31, 2013

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Summary

The cost of energy subsidies is large, and reduces the fiscal space available for public expenditure priorities, including education, health, and infrastructure. Libya’s ample hydrocarbon wealth will allow it to reform subsidies while protecting the poor. A gradual phasing out of subsidies would allow adjustment in consumption and minimize the inflationary impact, thereby allowing the social assistance system to be strengthened. After a transfer mechanism is in place to facilitate fuel and electricity subsidy reform, food subsidy reform should be undertaken.

Subject: Consumption, Energy pricing, Energy subsidies, Expenditure, Fuel prices, Inflation, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Africa, Consumption, Cost recovery, CR, East Africa, Energy pricing, Energy subsidies, Fuel price Subsidies, Fuel price subsidy, Fuel prices, Inflation, ISCR, Middle East, North Africa, Petroleum product price, Price distortion, Price elasticity, Price Subsidies, Recovery of electricity, Subsidized price

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    14

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/151

  • Stock No:

    1LBYEA2013003

  • ISBN:

    9781484387399

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685