The Unequal Benefits of Fuel Subsidies Revisited : Evidence for Developing Countries /

Understanding who benefits from fuel price subsidies and the welfare impact of increasing fuel prices is key to designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distributio...

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Auteur principal: Coady, David
Autres auteurs: Flamini, Valentina, Sears, Louis
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/250
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF
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