This paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of removing agricultural support (both tariffs and subsidies … highly distortionary and tariffs have a larger distortionary impact than subsidies. Removal of agricultural support would …

The oil price decline creates an opportunity to dismantle energy subsidies, which escalated with high oil prices. This … paper assesses energy subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean—about 1.8 percent of GDP in 2011–13 (approximately … subsidize electricity, as are Central America and the Caribbean. Energy subsidies impose fiscal costs, hurting SOEs …

The economic and environmental implications of energy subsidies have received renewed attention from policymakers and … subsidies on energy consumption. In this paper we analyze a panel of cross-country data to explore the responsiveness of energy … significant long-term benefits from the reform of energy subsidies. Our findings also indicate that short-term gains from subsidy …

Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies … graph which is then used to analyze policy rules, subsidies and effective interaction between the state and the private …

Rising fuel subsidies have contributed to fiscal pressures in India. A key policy concern regarding subsidy reform is … implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of … groups. Better targeting of fuel subsidies would fully protect lower income households while still generating substantial net …

of the private investors. The application of a general scheme of wage subsidies is rejected in the paper. Furthermore …

particular. We find evidence that the state has channeled implicit subsidies to enterprises in the form of tax and utility …

relevant taxes/subsidies to correct the externalities and to address equity and revenue considerations can be measured with a …