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Cover Departmental Papers
Energy Subsidy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and Lessons
Mr. Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne
and
Mr. Mumtaz Hussain
The reform of energy subsidies is an important but challenging issue for sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. There is a relatively large theoretical and empirical literature on this issue. While this paper relies on that literature, too, it tailors its discussion to SSA countries to respond to the following questions: Why it is important to reduce energy subsidies? What are the difficulties involved in energy subsidy reform? How best can a subsidy reform be implemented? This paper uses various sources of information on SSA countries: quantitative assessments, surveys, and individual (but standardized) case studies.
Keywords:
DPPP; DP; fuel subsidy; average cost; retail price; subsidy reform; unit price; SSA country; Energy subsidy; fixed charge; federal government; opportunity cost; Energy subsidies; Fuel prices; Tariffs; Electricity; Inflation; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Middle East and Central Asia; Global; West Africa
Cover Policy Papers
Case Studies on Energy Subsidy Reform—Lessons and Implications - Supplement
International Monetary Fund
This supplement presents country case studies reviewing energy subsidy reform experiences, which are the basis for the reform lessons identified in the main paper. The selection of countries for the case studies reflects the availability of data and of previously documented evidence on country-specific reforms. The 22 country case studies were also chosen to provide cases from all regions and a mix of outcomes from reform. The studies cover 19 countries, including seven from sub-Saharan Africa, two in developing Asia, three in the Middle East and North Africa, four in Latin America and the Caribbean, and three in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS. The case studies are organized by energy product, with 14 studies of the reform of petroleum product subsidies, seven studies of the reform of electricity subsidies, and a case study of subsidy reform for coal. The larger number of studies on fuel subsidies reflects the wider availability of data and past studies for these reforms. The structure of each case study is similar, with each one providing the context of the reform and a description of the reforms; discussion of the impact of the reform on energy prices or subsidies and its success or failure; mitigating measures that were implemented in an attempt to generate public support for the reform and offset adverse effects on the poor; and, finally, identification of lessons for designing reforms.
Keywords:
PP; exchange rate; fuel price; private sector; rate of return; stabilization fund; subsidy reform; transfer program; reform program; Fuel prices; Tariffs; Inflation; Energy subsidies; Electricity; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa
Cover IMF Working Papers
Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA
Anna Maria Mayda
and
Mr. Chad Steinberg
South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade patterns. Specifically, it estimates the impact of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) on Uganda's imports between 1994 and 2003. Detailed import and tariff data at the 6-digit harmonized system level are used for more than 1,000 commodities. Based on a difference-in-difference estimation strategy, the paper finds that-in contrast to evidence from aggregate statistics-COMESA's preferential tariff liberalization has not considerably increased Uganda's trade with member countries, on average across sectors. The effect, however, is heterogeneous across sectors. Finally, the paper finds no evidence of trade-diversion effects.
Keywords:
WP; COMESA country; tariff rate; trade diversion; trade creation
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Rwanda: Recent Economic Developments
International Monetary Fund
The government of Rwanda has recognized that economic development in most areas would have to be the responsibility of the private sector (particularly since military and civil service employment would be reduced), but that the public sector could still have a role in promoting economic equality by providing a social safety net, most importantly with a solvent social security system. Before the conflict in 1994, the private sector has accounted for only about 50 percent of employment in the formal sector, excluding the civil service.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; U.S. dollar; gross domestic product; sales tax; price index; private sector; tax revenue; economic planning; excess reserves; broad money; tertiary sector; income tax; money market; foreign exchange; Agricultural commodities; Tariffs; Civil service; Exports; Commercial banks; Sub-Saharan Africa; Africa
Cover IMF Staff Papers
IMF Staff papers: Volume 13 No. 3
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
This paper explores trends in payment imbalances between 1952 and 1964. When desired reserves deviate appreciably from actual holdings, the authorities will sooner or later readjust their economic policies to reduce the magnitude of the deviation. On the assumption that the priorities given in individual countries to domestic and external objectives of economic policy and the attitudes toward the use of various policy instruments remain unchanged, desired reserves would tend to rise chiefly as a result of the increase in the size of expected payments fluctuations. International reserves of all 65 countries of the study rose over the period studied by 2.5 per cent a year. This low rate of increase reflects, however, the large reduction in US reserves. For all countries of the study excluding the United States, the reserves grew by 6.0 per cent a year. Leaving aside the loss of reserves by the United States, reserves of all countries appear, therefore, to have grown roughly in proportion to the value of trade and to the size of payments imbalances.
Keywords:
SP; fund; center; deficit; balance of payments; payments imbalance; export tax; fund member; reserve claim; parity rate; Reserve assets; Tariffs; Gold; Exports; Reserve positions; Africa; Middle East; Asia and Pacific; Western Europe; Europe