India has been famous for arguing that it (and the rest of the developing world) should incur no expense in controlling emissions that cause climate change. The west caused the problem and it should clean it up. That argument is increasingly untenable — both in the fundamental arithmetic of...

This note comes in three sections. First, the information required for political economy analysis of energy subsidy reforms is presented. Second, a summary is given of the information that can usually be obtained through desk research to provide the context for subsequent interviews and another...

This book proposes a simple framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies covering more than 30 distinct episodes of reform. Five key lessons emerge. First, energy subsidies often follow a life cycle, beginning as a way to...

Introduction / Gabriela Inchauste and David G. Victor -- The Dominican Republic: from generalized to targeted subsidies / Andrea Gallina, Gabriela Inchauste, Pavel Isa, Catherine Lee, Miguel Sánchez -- Ghana: lessons learned, new strategies / Sheila Addo, Morgan Bazilian, Samuel Oguah --...

Summary: governments spend staggering sums of money subsidizing fossil fuels, with many harmful consequences for public budgets, energy markets, and pollution. While there is widespread agreement among analysts that most of these subsidies serve no legitimate purpose, cutting subsidies has...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Overview -- Why Reform? -- What Is Subsidy Reform? -- Analytical Framework -- A Political Economy Analysis of the Onset, Evolution, and Reform of Subsidy Regimes -- Case...