Analyzing the Incidence of Consumer Price Subsidies and the Impact of Reform on Households — Quantitative Analysis : Households (original) (raw)

This is the third in the series of 10 good practice notes under the Energy Sector Reform Assessment Framework (ESRAF), an initiative of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) of the World Bank. ESRAF proposes a guide to analyzing energy subsidies, the impacts of subsidies and their reforms, and the political context for reform in developing countries. This note is a product of a team from the Poverty Global Practice summarizing insights from recent global, regional, and country-level work on energy subsidy reform. A number of different World Bank sources has been quoted freely and adapted with the permission of the authors. They are listed in the first part of the references with an asterisk (*). The authors are very grateful to Marianne Fay, Thomas Flochel, Sudarshan Gooptu, and Gabriela inchauste for their overall guidance and support in producing this note and to Ezgi Canpolat, Sophia Georgieva, Amr Moubarak and Ruslan Yemtsov, for their very helpful comments and suggestions. Masami Kojima's contribution greatly improved the scope and clarity of the paper and of the arguments here made. Zuzana Dobrotkova provided excellent research support.