This text provides guidance to policymakers on how to design and implement sound price-subsidy reforms. It draws on the experience of price-subsidy reform in 28 countries. The authors discuss economic and political considerations and make several recommendations concerning the speed of reform...

The authors describe the various ways in which the financial market crisis might affect workers, pension funds and governments. In 2008 the impact of the stock market decline on global pension assets was substantial (roughly 40 per cent, according to the authors' estimates for the G20...