innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly price sensitive, but widespread take-up would not be achieved even … trust, liquidity constraints and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We suggest …

This paper gives a brief review on types of subsidies and how they work in theory. The paper identified three types of … production or input. With the use of graphic examples to describe the partial effects of subsidies on supply and demand, the … elasticity for supply and demand of input (the more responsive supply and demand are to changes in the price of the input), the …

consumption to changes in energy prices and the implications of our findings for the debate on energy subsidy reform. Our findings … indicate a long-term price elasticity of energy demand between -0.3 and -0.5, which suggests that countries can reap … significant long-term benefits from the reform of energy subsidies. Our findings also indicate that short-term gains from subsidy …

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effect of taxation and subsidy programmes on income distribution in Sri Lanka …

, savings, investment, trade, etc.; presents a simulation of the abolishment of a petroleum subsidy to illustrate the working of …