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The paper studies the benefit incidence of fuel subsidies in Nigeria household sector. Combining annual subsidy … benefits from fuel subsidies are accrued to each income groups in Nigeria. The results show that while the kerosene subsidy is … more evenly distributed across income groups, petrol subsidy is concentrated to high income groups. In aggregate, the top …
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would be much more affected than other sectors. Thus, a large-scale industrial electricity price subsidy does not seem to be … well beyond the temporary nature of the subsidy. …
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uptake of renewable heating systems, we use unique data on a federal government subsidy scheme and exploit geographic …
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This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
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environmentally harmful fossil fuel subsidy: States that maintain dual-pricing policies are not incentivised to curb their CO2 … context of fossil fuel subsidy reform. In view of climate change mitigation, the World Trade Organization (WTO) should …, the piece approaches dual pricing from the viewpoint of being a fossil fuel subsidy. The contribution explores avenues to …
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global fossil-fuel subsidy reform. In this paper, we focus on 25 countries with large fossil-fuel consumption subsidies and … estimate the impacts of fossil-fuel subsidy reform on achieving country-specific emissions reduction targets defined by the …
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This paper reviews Ghana's recent experience on downstream petroleum products pricing and deregulation and looks at its implications for the nation's energy security. The Government of Ghana in June 2015 put in place a deregulation policy that had the expectation of allowing marketers and...
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This paper analyzes consumers' price elasticities of demand for fossil fuels, and how a reduction of fossil fuel subsidies can lead to important reduction in CO2 emissions for various groups of countries that have relatively high fossil fuel subsidies and notably on diesel, including the...
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-efficient durables (and thus may increase the inframarginal take-up of a subsequent subsidy), while other consumers may locate at the … lower bound of a minimum efficiency standard (and a given subsidy may be insufficient to change their investment toward a …
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Understanding the determinants of home-efficiency improvements is significant to a range of energy policy issues, including the reduction of fossil fuel use and environmental protection. This paper analyzes retrofit choices by assembling a unique data set merging a nationwide household survey...
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