The steep decline in the world oil price in the last quarter of 2014 slashed fuel price subsidies. Several governments … recovery. Other governments took advantage of low world prices to increase taxes and other charges on fuels. However, the … government and consumers to get accustomed to fluctuations in world fuel prices and exchange rates. By contrast, freezing prices …

consumer support estimates in fact captures price gaps as market transfers to producers or consumers. Differences in subsidy … valuation arise from assumptions made to compensate for missing data and the scope of subsidy measurement. Having a common … countries and sectors, benchmarking pricing, and assessing subsidy policies. Subsidy measurement should not be viewed as a one …

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 …

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 …

dollar. Without downplaying the importance of subsidy elimination, the paper concludes that these impediments should receive …

associated fiscal burden. For the selected sample of 20 developing countries, the average energy subsidy recorded in the budget … subsidy reform, implementation of compensatory social policies and an effective communication strategy, before the changes …