This Selected Issues Paper focuses on economic condition, energy subsidies, and oil prices in Jordan. Energy price … subsidies pose a serious fiscal risk in the present context of increasing and volatile international prices. The macroeconomic …

remained about 20 percent of non-oil GDP, compared with overall fuel subsidies of about 8.3 percent of non-oil GDP. The fuel … pricing policy and subsidy scheme have been established by the authorities to protect low-income households from rising energy …

"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on … "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other …

comprehensive estimates of energy subsidies currently available for 176 countries; and (ii) an analysis of ?how to do energy subsidy …Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate …. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital …

reform of petroleum product subsidies, seven studies of the reform of electricity subsidies, and a case study of subsidy …This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the … reform for coal. The larger number of studies on fuel subsidies reflects the wider availability of data and past studies for …