"This volume provides the most comprehensive estimates of worldwide energy subsidies currently available, drawing on data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity. It lays out an analysis of "how to do" energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies and analyses carried out by other institutions, and it offers summary narratives and analyses of reform efforts undertaken in each of those 22 countries"--Preface.
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This volume draws on data from 176 countries in the areas of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, and electricity, and 22 country case studies of energy subsidy reform efforts, to review what has worked best and illustrate successes and failures. Chapters consider the components of subsidies and defining and measuring them; their consequences, including fiscal costs, adverse macroeconomic and environmental impacts, and adverse impacts to equity due to regressive distribution; and the challenges and successes of 28 reforms, through analysis of the case studies, which form the bulk of the book and are from the sub-Saharan Africa region, emerging and developing countries in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa region, the Latin America and Caribbean region, and Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. They present information on the political and economic context, reforms, strategic and mitigating measures, and lessons. Annotation ©2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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