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The paper provides basic guidelines and tools for simulating subsidy reforms with Stata using a single cross … I provides basic instructions for carrying out subsidy analyses. Part II outlines economic theory and formulae for the …
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It is widely accepted that the costs of underpricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors?transport...
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pass-through to consumers of increases in world prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas between … orders of magnitude in 2012, and oil-exporting countries were far less likely to pass on price increases. Gasoline had the …Between 1999 and 2008, world oil prices more than quadrupled in real terms. For oil importers, vulnerability to oil …
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As in many countries around the world, subsidies to energy in Bangladesh impose a significant fiscal burden, with …
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This paper examines the short- and long-run economic impact of Egypt's energy subsidy reform in July 2014 (without and …
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distributional analysis of food and energy subsidies and simulate the impact of subsidy reforms on household wellbeing, poverty, and … the government's budget. Despite the focus on direct effects only, the results indicate that subsidy reforms would have a … institutions, and the current political instability make subsidy reforms extremely complex in Libya. It is also clear that subsidy …
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Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for … simulation model designed by the World Bank. It finds that the 2014 reforms have been a good mix of reforms from a distributional …
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rather than a price subsidy could also alleviate certain governance concerns. The paper concludes with some guidance on how …
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This paper quantifies the wide-ranging costs of potential increases in worldwide barriers to trade in two scenarios. First, a coordinated global withdrawal of tariff commitments from all existing bilateral/regional trade agreements, as well as from unilateral preferential schemes coupled with an...
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government will not know in advance whether the subsidy is World Trade Organization-legal …This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes …
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