issues involved in the planning and early implementation of the reform, including the transfers to households and the public … relations campaign that were critical to the success of the reform. It also looks at the reform from a chronological standpoint … second phase of the reform …

designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude … of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and … subsidy reform for countries where the data necessary for such an analysis is not available …