Os preços globais do petróleo subiram nas últimas décadas, prejudicando significativamente o padrão de vida das famílias. Em resposta ao aumento dos preços, muitos governos introduziram subsídios aos preços...
Global oil prices have surged in recent decades, significantly hurting household living standards. In response to rising prices, many governments introduced fuel price subsidy to protect the most vulnerable...
Several countries in East Asia have increased fossil fuel subsidies to keep consumer prices lower than currently high international prices. These subsidies are discouraging the shift in consumption away...
Multiple price lists are a convenient tool to elicit willingness to pay in surveys and experiments, but choice patterns such as “multiple switching” and “never switching” indicate high error rates. Existing...
The paper presents the nine country cases and draws lessons in the concluding section. Indonesia, which is the only country in this paper that has retained universal price subsidies to date, is covered...
This is the fourth in the series of ten good practice notes under the Energy Sector Reform Assessment Framework (ESRAF), an initiative of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) of the...
The First Fiscal Management Development Policy Financing Project of Angola had an unsatisfactory outcome with a significant risk to development, a moderately unsatisfactory performance by the Bank and...
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...
Energy subsidy reform is not a goal in itself, but rather a means of achieving lasting economic and social progress. Communicating with the public and other key stakeholders about the benefits of reform...
This note aims to provide an overview and guidance on the use of tools to assess the environmental and health effects of changes in the levels of fine particulate matter caused by higher consumption of...
This note aims to provide guidance on how to assess the distributional implications of energy subsidy reform (ESR) using quantitative methods.It is intended for use by those familiar with the basics of...
The Energy Subsidy Reform Assessment Framework (ESRAF) proposes a guide to analyzing energy subsidies, the impacts of subsidies and their reforms, and the political context for reform in developing countries...
As the second largest African oil producer, Angola had unsustainable government expenditures in effect until 2014 due to the drop in international oil prices. The Government responded with a comprehensive...
Remittance prices worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW remains a key tool to monitor the cost incurred by remitters when...
Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. Launched in September 2008, RPW remains a key tool to monitor the cost incurred by remitters when...
The remittance prices worldwide (RPW) database monitors remittance prices across all geographic regions of the world. RPW was launched by the World Bank in September 2008, and remains a key tool to monitor...
The eleventh meeting of the international comparison program (ICP) 2011 regional coordinators (RCs) was held on March 3, 2014 at the United Nations in New York. The attendees were the RCs from Africa...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: financial markets; high-income...
In 2011, the median oil imports rose to 5 percent of gross domestic product for net importers. In the past several years, many governments have not passed through the world oil price increases to consumers...