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

"how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other … institutions, and it offers summary narratives and analyses of reform efforts undertaken in each of those 22 countries"--Preface …

an integral part of a set of qualitative studies on poverty and social impacts of energy subsidy reforms. In particular …, it examines what it means for energy subsidy reforms to be more gender sensitive. The purpose of this research is to … illustrate the extent to which energy subsidy reforms in the ECA region differently impact men and women. Prior global studies on …

recent times. The distributional impacts of reform would depend on how important the subsidized items are to consumers in … households. The distributional impacts of reform would of course not only depend on how much consumers spend on the subsidized … reform scenarios across the income distribution. From this discussion, in section six the chapter moves onto considering how …