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  "title": "Energy Subsidy Reform (ESRx)",
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  "summary": "Energy Subsidy Reform Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-17",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.132\n- Course title: Energy Subsidy Reform\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Primary Language: Arabic\n- Course offered in: English and Arabic\n- Presented jointly by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Fiscal Affairs, Middle East and Central Asia, and Asia and Pacific Departments"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications and Technical Requirements",
      "content": "- Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.\n- Basic Microsoft Excel skills required.\n- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly beneficial for officials in finance, economy, and planning ministries who provide advice on macroeconomic policies or implement policy."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description and Scope",
      "content": "- The online 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- The course:\n  - Introduces the concept of energy subsidies — 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.\n  - Presents methodologies to design a fuel pricing mechanism.\n  - Reviews what works best in energy subsidy reform and illustrates successes and failures through particular country examples."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Core Skills, Tools, and Policy Focus",
      "content": "- Use of an Excel-based toolkit to assess the effects of alternative energy subsidy reform scenarios on households in different income groups.\n- Design of fuel pricing mechanisms to mitigate fuel price volatility.\n- Design of subsidy reform strategies and policy responses to mitigate effects on inflation and household welfare."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Objectives (Participants should be able to)",
      "content": "- 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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    "Session No.: OL 26.132",
    "Course title: Energy Subsidy Reform",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)",
    "Primary Language: Arabic",
    "Course offered in: English and Arabic",
    "Presented jointly by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Fiscal Affairs, Middle East and Central Asia, and Asia and Pacific Departments",
    "Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.",
    "Basic Microsoft Excel skills required.",
    "Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly beneficial for officials in finance, economy, and planning ministries who provide advice on macroeconomic policies or implement policy.",
    "The online 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.",
    "The course:",
    "Use of an Excel-based toolkit to assess the effects of alternative energy subsidy reform scenarios on households in different income groups.",
    "Design of fuel pricing mechanisms to mitigate fuel price volatility.",
    "Design of subsidy reform strategies and policy responses to mitigate effects on inflation and household welfare.",
    "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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