## Reforming Fuel Subsidies

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Reforming Fuel Subsidies](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/rfsce25-06)

## Other formats

- [Markdown version](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/rfsce25-06/index.md)
- [Structured JSON version](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/rfsce25-06/index.json)
- [Bundle manifest](/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/rfsce25-06/bundle-manifest.json)

## Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 25.06
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: February 2-6, 2025 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed

---

### Target audience and qualifications
- 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.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or a related field.
  - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel is desirable.
- Participant involvement:
  - Participants may be asked to make presentations on their own country’s experience in setting fuel prices and reforming subsidies.

### Course description — scope and tools
- Focus areas:
  - Recent developments in subsidy spending on fuel products.
  - Macroeconomic impact of fuel subsidies.
  - Environmental and social implications of fuel subsidies.
- Analytical content:
  - Country-specific case studies illustrating reform experiences.
  - Key elements of successful reforms, including measures to protect low-income groups adversely affected by lower subsidies.
  - Tools for measuring subsidies and assessing the distributional impact of subsidy reforms.
  - Alternative fuel pricing mechanisms that can help smooth the transmission of international fuel price changes to domestic prices while protecting the budget.

### Course objectives — competencies on completion
- Participants should be able to:
  - Explain the different rationales for energy subsidies and how subsidies are measured.
  - Describe the drawbacks of energy subsidies.
  - Identify possible barriers to the reform of fuel subsidies.
  - Design an effective reform strategy drawing on lessons from the experiences of other countries.
  - Use tailored tools to measure fuel subsidies and estimate the impact of a fuel subsidy reform on household welfare, in order to inform the design of mitigating measures and guide the choice of alternative fuel pricing mechanisms.

---


## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2025/rfsce25-06_