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Energy S
Subsidy
b id Reform
R f
DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT
OF SUBSIDIES
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I. Definition
Types
Di t
Direct
Spending
Subsidies
Price Tax
Control Subsidies
Types
Natural
Resource
Access
Quasi-Fiscal Cross-
Interventions
i Subsidy
b id
Other
types
Purchase Lending
Requirements
Types
Subsidies
• A pre-tax subsidy
•A post-tax subsidy
Consumer
Subsidies
t : tax subsidy
II. Measurement
• Approaches:
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
Syria
Comparison:
M
Morocco
MCD Countries
Turkm
menistan
Egypt
Algeria
Bahrain
B
Iraq
Oman
Saudii Arabia
Kuwait
Diesel pass
Libya
Azeerbaijan
Qatar
Tunisia
UAE
pass-through
Uzb
bekistan
Mauuritania
Kazaakhstan
Sudan
Kyrggyz Rep.
Mar 2009 - Dec 2011
Djibouti
D
Jordan
Iran
Pakistan
P
Yemen
through to domestic price
Armenia
A
Lebanon
Afgh
hanistan
Georgia
G
Taajikistan
Detection:
Change in Policy
1.8 1.8
1.6 1.6
14
1.4 14
1.4
1.2 1.2
1.0
1.0
08
0.8
0.8
0.6
0.6
0.4
04
0.4 0.2
0.2 0.0
0.0 -0.2
Sep 10
Dec 10
Mar 11
Jun 10
Jun 11
11-Dec
11-Sep
Sep 10
Dec 10
Mar 11
11-Dec
11-Sep
Jun 10
Jun 11
Limitations:
Volatility
Month-to-month
Month to month pass
pass-through
through of
diesel prices in US
5
-1
Limitations
• The pass
pass-through
through can be negative around an
inversion of the trend in international prices
• It does not
o accou
account for
o initial
a pprice
ce levels
e es