This report takes stock of political economy analysis (PEA) and communications in the context of country-specific technical assistance activities supporting energy subsidy reforms that benefited from financial and technical support from…
This ESMAP report explores the ways in which computable general equilibrium (CGE) models were adapted and used to inform energy subsidy reform design and implementation.
This report aims to contribute to the global knowledge base on energy subsidy reform by providing an overview of key distributional issues related to energy subsidy reforms and emerging lessons from a global stocktaking of practices, as…
Energy subsidies, which have a long history of use by governments around the world, have been rising in recent years after a brief period of decline. Despite their significant wider costs, subsidies are used by governments for various…
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 significantly more affordable…
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…