key questions regarding residential electricity subsidies in Central America. In particular: How do the subsidy mechanisms … on the lowest-income groups. However, the existing electricity subsidy schemes are very inefficient at targeting … policymakers with the analytical foundations necessary to assess the costs and benefits of their electricity subsidy mechanisms …

capacity additions do not perturb the efficiency of market outcomes as long as any charges to consumers to support the subsidy …

subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about … on the fiscal incidence of home care programs. -- home care of the elderly ; price-subsidy ; fiscal incidence index ; non …

distributional impacts of energy subsidy reform. We find that in absolute terms energy subsidies benefit richer households more than … poor ones. Relative to household income, subsidy removal without compensation would be regressive for diesel and LPG … up by subsidy reform could be used to mitigate income losses for poor households by means of in-kind and in-cash revenue …