Energy Subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean : Stocktaking and Policy Challenges /

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 evenly split between fuel and electricity), and about 3.8 perce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Di Bella, Gabriel
Other Authors: Norton, Lawrence, Ntamatungiro, Joseph, Ogawa, Sumiko
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/030
Online Access:Full text available on IMF