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  "title": "Reforming Fuel Subsidies",
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  "summary": "Reforming Fuel Subsidies Training Program Target Audience Mid-level to senior officials at ministries of finance, other ministries, and government agencies involved in setting fuel prices or fuel subsidy policy.",
  "publishDate": "2024-05-15",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Mid-level to senior officials at ministries of finance, other ministries, and government agencies involved in setting fuel prices or fuel subsidy policy.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or a related field.\n  - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is desirable.\n- Delivery and languages:\n  - Delivery Method: In-person Training\n  - Primary Language: English\n  - Interpretation Language: Arabic"
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    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Presented by the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- The course explores:\n  - Recent developments in subsidy spending on fuel products.\n  - Macroeconomic impact of fuel subsidies.\n  - Environmental and social implications of fuel subsidies.\n- Emphasis on country-specific case studies to elaborate on key elements of successful reforms.\n- Coverage of measures to protect low-income groups adversely affected by lower subsidies.\n- Dissemination of tools for:\n  - Measuring subsidies.\n  - Assessing the distributional impact of subsidy reforms.\n  - Alternative fuel pricing mechanisms that can help smooth the transmission of international fuel price changes to domestic prices while protecting the budget.\n- Participants may be asked to make presentations on their own country’s experience in setting fuel prices and reforming subsidies."
    },
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Explain the different rationales for energy subsidies and how subsidies are measured.\n  - Describe the drawbacks of energy subsidies.\n  - Identify possible barriers to the reform of fuel subsidies.\n  - Design an effective reform strategy drawing on lessons from the experiences of other countries.\n  - Use tailored tools to measure fuel subsidies and estimate the impact of a fuel subsidy reform on household welfare, in order to:\n    - Inform the design of mitigating measures.\n    - Guide the choice of alternative fuel pricing mechanisms."
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