Fuel Price Subsidies in Gabon : Fiscal Cost and Distributional Impact /

This paper looks at the fiscal cost and distributional impact of implicit fuel price subsidies in Gabon, where fuel prices have remained largely unchanged since 2002. Using estimated implicit import parity prices, we evaluate the total fiscal cost of the subsidies at 3.2 percent of non-oil GDP in 20...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leigh, Daniel
Other Authors: El-Said, Moataz
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/243
Online Access:Full text available on IMF