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"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity. It lays out an analysis of "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights...
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Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging...
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This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the reform lessons identified in the main paper. The selection of countries for the case studies reflects the availability of data and of previously documented evidence on...
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This assessment of the implementation of the BCP in India has been completed as part of the Financial Sector Assessment …
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This Technical Note examines India's securities market and the regulatory system overseeing the securities market and … market participants. It is based upon a mission to Mumbai, India from March 14 - 31, 2017, conducted as one component of a … occurred in India's securities markets since the last assessment and the changes that have occurred in the regulation of this …
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Despite the external origin of the financial crisis, the potential impact on India’s corporate sector could be large …, as India has become increasingly integrated with the global economy in the past decade. The Selected Issues paper … discusses India’s economic development and policies. The impact on the corporate sector will in turn feed into India’s overall …
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This 2006 Article IV Consultation highlights that India’s economy has continued to grow above trend, with an average …
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A summary of India’s dissemination practices relative to the special data dissemination standard (SDDS) is provided … from May 13–30, 2002, as well as publicly available information. The assessment of India’s data dissemination practices … discussed. Finally, the report sets out recommendations to achieve further improvements in India’s statistics …
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It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the validity of this claim in the Indian context. The...
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