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global subsidies are due to domestic factors-energy pricing reform thus remains largely in countries' own national interest …
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distribution. The paper overviews country experience with subsidy reform, drawing lessons …
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This paper looks at the fiscal cost and distributional impact of implicit fuel price subsidies in Gabon, where fuel prices have remained largely unchanged since 2002. Using estimated implicit import parity prices, we evaluate the total fiscal cost of the subsidies at 3.2 percent of non-oil GDP...
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This paper reviews evidence on the impact of fuel subsidy reform on household welfare in developing countries. On … average, the burden of subsidy reform is neutrally distributed across income groups; a $0.25 decrease in the per liter subsidy … subsidies than the bottom. Issues that need to be addressed when undertaking subsidy reform are also discussed, including the …
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source—each program’s subsidy component. Recent credit reform proposals would make control of credit subsidies the primary … in improving their economic effects by eliminating unintended subsidies. However, many high subsidy-rate programs appear …
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policy options for expenditure reform in each of these areas, drawing on successful reform episodes in other countries …
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We estimate the subnational employment and GDP multiplier of Brazil's 2020 federal cash transfers to vulnerable households. Using two-stage least squares regressions we estimate a formal employment multiplier and then apply an analytical transformation to recover an implied GDP multiplier in the...
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Is there a one-size-fits-all approach to inclusive growth? We look at four key case studies across advanced and emerging markets-the Nordics, India, Brazil, and Egypt-to try to answer this question. We highlight qualitatively in these countries the key components of inclusive growth models,...
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