"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 from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other …

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 excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the unconventional energy boom in North America, and its macroeconomic implications … and challenges for Canada. The unconventional energy boom has had significant positive effects on Canada’s economic … potential output gains from a full market access of Canada’s energy products could reach about 2 percent of GDP over a 10-year …