{
  "title": "Energy Subsidy Reform (ESRx)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2024/esrxol24-148",
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  "summary": "Energy Subsidy Reform Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-27",
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    {
      "heading": "Course logistics and qualifications",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.148\n- Deadline: Deadline passed\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- Course language availability: English and Arabic\n- Target Audience: All government officials; particularly officials in finance, economy, and planning ministries who provide advice on macroeconomic policies or implement policy\n- Qualifications and technical requirements:\n  - Some knowledge of economics would be helpful\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills\n  - Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course scope and instructional partners",
      "content": "- Presented jointly by:\n  - the Institute for Capacity Development\n  - the Fiscal Affairs Department\n  - Middle East and Central Asia Department\n  - Asia and Pacific Department\n- Focus: design of technical assistance and subsidy reform to make recommendations on how best to reduce energy subsidies"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Core content and analytical tools",
      "content": "- Introduces the concept of energy subsidies, including:\n  - definition and measurement of energy subsidies\n  - estimation of pre- and post-tax subsidies\n- Reviews implications of energy subsidies:\n  - economic implications\n  - social implications\n  - environmental implications\n- Presents toolkits and analytical instruments:\n  - toolkits to assess distributional effects of alternative subsidy reform scenarios\n  - an Excel-based toolkit to assess the effects of alternative energy subsidy reform scenarios on households in different income groups\n  - toolkits to design a fuel pricing mechanism and to mitigate fuel price volatility"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Learning objectives and competencies",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Explain the concept of energy subsidies and estimate pre- and post-tax subsidies\n- Define corrective energy taxes and explain how to calculate them\n- Describe the economic, social, and environmental impact of energy subsidies\n- Explain how to design robust subsidy reform strategies\n- Design policy responses 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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    "Deadline: Deadline passed",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Course language availability: English and Arabic",
    "Target Audience: All government officials; particularly officials in finance, economy, and planning ministries who provide advice on macroeconomic policies or implement policy",
    "Qualifications and technical requirements:",
    "Presented jointly by:",
    "Focus: design of technical assistance and subsidy reform to make recommendations on how best to reduce energy subsidies",
    "Introduces the concept of energy subsidies, including:",
    "Reviews implications of energy subsidies:",
    "Presents toolkits and analytical instruments:",
    "Explain the concept of energy subsidies and estimate pre- and post-tax subsidies",
    "Define corrective energy taxes and explain how to calculate them",
    "Describe the economic, social, and environmental impact of energy subsidies",
    "Explain how to design robust subsidy reform strategies",
    "Design policy responses 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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