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Book Call for Proposals  analysis of the energy system impacts of fossil fuel subsidy reform in Indonesia

Download or read book Call for Proposals analysis of the energy system impacts of fossil fuel subsidy reform in Indonesia written by IISD International Institute for Sustainable Development and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Indonesia

Download or read book Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Indonesia written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsidized energy is provided to all Indonesian citizens as a public service obligation. This study measures the size of fossil fuel subsidies such as underpricing of petroleum products and electricity, tax exemptions, and subsidized credit; examines the potential economic, energy, and environmental impacts of reducing them; and discusses options for social safety nets to mitigate the impacts of the reforms. It shows that the short-term adverse impacts of subsidy reform turn positive in the long term as households and industry respond to changing market realities by adjusting energy demand, supply, and production capacity. Policy options for sustainable energy use are provided to aid policy makers in their current subsidy reform process.

Book The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform

Download or read book The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform written by Jakob Skovgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides the first book-length account on the politics of fossil fuel subsidies. This title is also available as Open Access.

Book Mind the Gap  A Review on Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Social Welfare in Indonesia

Download or read book Mind the Gap A Review on Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform and Social Welfare in Indonesia written by Rimawan Pradiptyo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossil-fuel subsidies have been a major burden on the Indonesian economy for the last 10 years and any attempt to reform the subsidy has been opposed by members of the public. This study reviews the literature on the nature of fossil-fuel subsidies and their impact on the Indonesian economy. It aims to identify the various strategies that have been developed to reform the subsidy and to identify research gaps that may be filled by future studies. The proponents of fuel subsidies argue that subsidies will support economic growth, poverty reduction and promote energy security, however, evidence from various studies, which have been conducted in Indonesia, suggest otherwise. Studies in the down stream oil sub-sector have been conducted quite extensively, however, substantial research gap was found for upstream and middle stream oil sub-sectors.

Book Learning from Leaders

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  • Author : Laura Merrill
  • Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
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  • ISBN : 9289347392
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Learning from Leaders written by Laura Merrill and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Energy Subsidy Reform

Download or read book Energy Subsidy Reform written by Mr.Benedict J. Clements and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy subsidies are aimed at protecting consumers, however, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. This book provides the most comprehensive estimates of energy subsidies currently available for 176 countries and an analysis of “how to do” energy subsidy reform, drawing on insights from 22 country case studies undertaken by the IMF staff and analyses carried out by other institutions.

Book The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform

Download or read book The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform written by Gabriela Inchauste and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a simple framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies covering more than 30 distinct episodes of reform. Five key lessons emerge. First, energy subsidies often follow a life cycle, beginning as a way to stabilize prices and reduce exposure to price volatility for low-income consumers. However, as they grow in size and political power, they become entrenched. Second, subsidy reform strategies vary because the underlying political economy problems vary. When benefits are concentrated, satisfying (or isolating) interest groups with alternative policies is an important condition for effective reform. When benefits are diffuse, it can be much harder to identify and manage the political coalition needed for reform. Third, governments vary in their administrative and political capacities to implement difficult energy subsidy reforms. Fourth, improvements in social protection systems are often critical to the success of reforms because they make it possible to target assistance to those most in need. Finally, the most interesting cases involve governments that take a strategic approach to the challenges of political economy. In these settings, fixing energy subsidies is central to the governments’ missions of retaining political power and reorganizing how the government delivers benefits to the population. These cases are examples of “reform engineering,†? where governments actively seek to create the capacity to implement alternative policies, depoliticize tariffs, and build credibility around alternative policies. The most successful reforms involve active efforts by policy leaders to identify the political forces supporting energy subsidies and redirect or inoculate them.

Book Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform

Download or read book Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform: An audit of data on energy subsidies, energy use and gender in Indonesia November 2017 Niken Kusumawardhani, Rafiazka Hilman, Tara Laan, Nila Warda and Rachma Nurbani Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Acknowledgements The sections of this report on gender context and the impacts of fuel use on women were researched and written by Niken Kusumawardhani, Nil [...] The views and opinions expressed in this paper are the responsibility of the authors and should not be attributed to any of the above donors and do not necessarily reflect their official policies. [...] The focus is on the poor and near- poor, which comprise the bottom 35 per cent of the population by income. [...] The data collected in this report make a compelling case that the current subsidy regime is not meeting the needs the majority of poor and near-poor women in Indonesia. [...] Analysis of the distribution of LPG subsidies reveals that only 12 per cent of the benefits of the LPG subsidy flow to the bottom income quintile and 30 per cent to bottom two quintiles (the poor and non-poor).

Book Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms

Download or read book Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reforms written by Jun Rentschler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countries around the world are spending up to $500 billion per year on subsidising fossil fuel consumption. By some estimates, the G20 countries alone are spending around another $450 billion on subsidising fossil fuel production. In addition, the indirect social welfare costs of these subsidies have been shown to be substantial – for instance due to air pollution, road congestion, climate change, and economic inefficiency, to name a few. Considering these numbers, there is no doubt that fossil fuel subsidies cause severe economic distortions that compromise countries’ prospects of achieving equitable and sustainable development. This book provides a guide to the complex challenge of designing, assessing, and implementing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms. It shows that subsidy reform requires a careful balancing of complex economic and political trade-offs, as well as measures to mitigate adverse effects on vulnerable households and to assist firms with implementing efficiency enhancing measures. Going beyond the purely fiscal perspective, this book emphasises that smart subsidy reforms can contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development – environment, society, and economy. Over the course of eight chapters, this book considers a wide range of agents and stakeholders, markets, and policy measures in order to distil the key principles of designing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in energy economics and policy, climate change policy, and sustainable development more broadly.

Book Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in Mexico and Indonesia

Download or read book Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform in Mexico and Indonesia written by Jörg Husar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subsidy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa

Download or read book Subsidy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa written by Mr.Carlo A. Sdralevich and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries price subsidies are common, especially on food and fuels. However, these are neither well targeted nor cost effective as a social protection tool, often benefiting mainly the better off instead of the poor and vulnerable. This paper explores the challenges of replacing generalized price subsidies with more equitable social safety net instruments, including the short-term inflationary effects, and describes the features of successful subsidy reforms.

Book The Role of Information in Perception of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform

Download or read book The Role of Information in Perception of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform written by Rimawan Pradiptyo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes household perceptions and the role of information in the fossil-fuel subsidy reforms (FFSR) in Indonesia. The data used in this study were collected by Lembaga Survei Indonesia (LSI), based on an August 2014 survey that involved 2,899 respondents in 34 Indonesian provinces. Survey logistic and multinomial logistic regressions approaches were used in this study. The results show that: (1) those who live outside Java tend to be more receptive to the idea of FFSR (2) The tendency of respondents to oppose the reform is attributable to ownership of motorcycles and cars (3) Providing information about the state budget and the personal impact of the subsidy could change a respondent's opinion from opposition to support of the reform. These results indicated public resistance to a subsidy removal policy was not permanent. Those who own cars and/or motorcycles tend to be more resistant to FFSR than those who do not possess one.

Book Incidence and Impact

Download or read book Incidence and Impact written by Jun Erik Rentschler and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Economisation of Climate Change

Download or read book The Economisation of Climate Change written by Jakob Skovgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effort to address climate change cuts across a wide range of non-environmental actors and policy areas, including international economic institutions such as the Group of Twenty (G20), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These institutions do not tend to address climate change so much as an environmental issue, but as an economic one, a dynamic referred to as 'economisation'. Such economisation can have profound consequences for how environmental problems are addressed. This book explores how the G20, IMF, and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, what factors have shaped their specific approaches, and the consequences of this economisation of climate change. Focusing on the international level, it is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of politics, political economy and environmental policy.

Book Energy Subsidy Reform in Sub Saharan Africa

Download or read book Energy Subsidy Reform in Sub Saharan Africa written by Mr.Trevor Serge Coleridge Alleyne and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform

Download or read book Gender and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: