Energy is an essential production input for firms. Governments around the world have been subsidizing the production and consumption of energy for decades. By reforming energy subsidies, governments can...
Many governments around the world subsidize the energy consumption of their citizens. Despite the negative economic and social consequences of providing these subsidies, embarking on meaningful reforms...
Government subsidies have emerged as a flashpoint in the geopolitical tensions that threaten to undermine the global rules-based trading system. Subsidies are among the tools deployed by the world’s major...
This report takes stock of political economy analysis (PEA) and communications in the context of country-specific technical assistance activities supporting energy subsidy reforms that benefited from financial...
Energy subsidy reforms are, and will continue to be, at the forefront of policy debate in many countries around the world. International experience shows that energy subsidy reforms are a complex undertaking...
This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field...
Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this...
This 2nd edition of the Cameroon Economic Updates is part of a program of annual reports analyzing Cameron’s development trends and constraints. The objective of each issue is to present recent economic...
World Bank and CEPA. 2023. ‘Allocating universal service subsidies using electronic multi-round reverse auctions: Telecommunications in Tanzania’ This report, commissioned by the World Bank using funds...
Government subsidies have emerged as a flashpoint in the geopolitical tensions that threaten to undermine the global rules-based trading system. Subsidies are among the tools deployed by the world’s major...
Government subsidies today make up an enormous share of public budgets worldwide, perhaps larger than at any point in human history. In many countries, the magnitude of explicit subsidies in the natural...
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region has been less exposed to the food price shock arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine than other world regions. East Asia and Pacific economies have not imported...
The objective of the Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation Project for Pakistan is to increase agricultural productivity and improve water resources management throughout Sindh province through a...
Governments need to cooperate more on subsidies. This is for several reasons. Extensive subsidies influence production and trade. Important new issues have arisen, including the role of subsidies in addressing...
The State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report has traditionally focused on direct carbon pricing and the 2022 edition continues this approach. However, indirect carbon pricing also influences production...
This report is the product of the technical assistance to develop a business model to finance and scale up e-mobility in Uruguay provided by the World Bank and funded by the Mobility and Logistics (MOLO)...
Scaling-up e-mobility in Uruguay is considered an important step forward towards achieving the country’s decarbonization goals. Through its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement...
The objective of the Sindh Water and Agriculture Transformation Project for Pakistan is to increase agricultural productivity and improve water resources management throughout Sindh province through a...
This report presents: electricity-water-agriculture nexus; power subsidy to agriculture: socio economic context; Punjab: paani bachao paisa kamao scheme design; direct benefit transfer for electricity...
Lebanon has significant potential for economic growth but has historically had to contend with a myriad of economic, social, and geopolitical challenges on the path to fully achieving this potential. The...