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  "title": "Energy Subsidy Reform (ESRx)",
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  "summary": "Energy Subsidy Reform (ESRx) Training Program Course Energy Subsidy Reform (ESRx) This course builds on extensive cross-country analysis and hands-on experience in design of technical assistance and subsidy reform to make recommendations on how best to reduce energy subsidies.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-01",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Course builds on extensive cross-country analysis and hands-on experience in design of technical assistance and subsidy reform to make recommendations on how best to reduce energy subsidies.\n- Introduces the concept of energy subsidies, including their definition and measurement.\n- Reviews economic, social, and environmental implications of energy subsidies.\n- Presents toolkits to assess distributional effects of alternative subsidy reform scenarios and to design a fuel pricing mechanism.\n- Reviews empirical evidence on what works best in energy subsidy reform and illustrates successes and failures in particular countries."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials in finance, economy, and planning ministries who provide advice on macroeconomic policies or implement policy.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Explain the concept of energy subsidies, estimate pre- and post-tax subsidies, and describe their economic, social and environmental impact.\n- Define corrective energy taxes and explain how to calculate them.\n- Explain how to design robust subsidy reform strategies, and policies to mitigate the effects of subsidy reform on inflation and on household welfare.\n- Use an Excel-based toolkit to assess the effects of alternative energy subsidy reform scenarios on households in different income groups.\n- Design effective fuel pricing mechanisms to mitigate fuel price volatility."
    }
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    "Course builds on extensive cross-country analysis and hands-on experience in design of technical assistance and subsidy reform to make recommendations on how best to reduce energy subsidies.",
    "Introduces the concept of energy subsidies, including their definition and measurement.",
    "Reviews economic, social, and environmental implications of energy subsidies.",
    "Presents toolkits to assess distributional effects of alternative subsidy reform scenarios and to design a fuel pricing mechanism.",
    "Reviews empirical evidence on what works best in energy subsidy reform and illustrates successes and failures in particular countries.",
    "Target audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Explain the concept of energy subsidies, estimate pre- and post-tax subsidies, and describe their economic, social and environmental impact.",
    "Define corrective energy taxes and explain how to calculate them.",
    "Explain how to design robust subsidy reform strategies, and policies to mitigate the effects of subsidy reform on inflation and on household welfare.",
    "Use an Excel-based toolkit to assess the effects of alternative energy subsidy reform scenarios on households in different income groups.",
    "Design effective fuel pricing mechanisms to mitigate fuel price volatility."
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