This discussion paper presents a survey of the changes in Latin America's energy consumption over the last 30 years … in the Latin American energy sector, as both consumer and financier. Natural gas consumption has also grown in recent … years, and the discovery of large non-conventional gas reserves will also alter the energy landscape. Overall, the paper …

This paper investigates trends in energy intensity in Latin American countries over the last 40 years. It applies the … Fisher Ideal Index to decompose the energy intensity into the relative contributions of energy efficiency and the activity … mix, and then analyzes the determinants of these energy indexes through panel data regression techniques. Finally, the …

This paper models an energy tax reform process out of a status quo and towards environmentally related excises … increases in widespread energy inputs triggered by the reform exercise. The tax reform has a positive distributive impact in …