"how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other … institutions, and it offers summary narratives and analyses of reform efforts undertaken in each of those 22 countries"--Preface …

reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies undertaken by IMF staff and analyses carried out by other …

reform, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other hand … but bring future prosperity. We test these hypotheses, using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank’s Doing …

. Members have the same consumption benefit of reform but weak and strong members differ in their cost of exerting reform … efforts. As decisions are taken by unanimity, the reform level is determined by the weakest member. However, strong members … members into the Union) can have different effects on deepening (more reform effort). When a new member is stronger than the …

banks in 26 former socialist economies (FSEs). The indices reveal that central bank reform in the FSE during the 1990s has …

economic reforms. We test this hypothesis using data on microeconomic reforms from the World Bank’s Doing Business database … on resource abundance equals 10.9 percentage points more reform, a large effect given that the mean probability of reform …