Building on ESMAP’s Energy Subsidy Reform Assessment Framework (ESRAF) and drawing on recent research plus a decade of experience with country-specific technical assistance, the report consolidates these findings and proposes steps to…
This ESMAP report explores the ways in which computable general equilibrium (CGE) models can be adapted and used to inform energy subsidy reform design and implementation.
This report explores how poverty and distributional analyses have been used to support energy subsidy reform efforts through a review of select country-specific activities supported by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP…
This report reviews energy compensatory cash transfers implemented globally over the past two decades. The review focuses particularly on low- and middle-income countries where the challenges of energy subsidy reforms are most acute.
The government has been able to significantly reduce fiscal transfers to the electricity sector, while doubling new connections per year, halving tariffs for low-income households and making connection charges…
This good practice note provides those working on consumer price subsidy reforms, in particular social scientists, with hands-on, practical guidance for using certain qualitative research tools to help fully understand the distributional…
