Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use

The paper presents the nine country cases and draws lessons in the concluding section. Indonesia, which is the only country in this paper that has retained universal price subsidies to date, is covered first. Senegal, with repeated attempts to end...

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Main Author: Kojima, Masami
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-359482021-07-20T05:10:44Z Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use Kojima, Masami SUBSIDIES LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS COOKING FUEL The paper presents the nine country cases and draws lessons in the concluding section. Indonesia, which is the only country in this paper that has retained universal price subsidies to date, is covered first. Senegal, with repeated attempts to end price subsidies followed by re-introduction, is described next, followed by the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, two countries that have replaced universal price subsidies with cash transfers. Peru, which has set strict targeting criteria for conditional cash transfers, and India, the conditional cash transfer program of which is the largest program of its kind in the world, follow. Three countries with deregulated pricing of LPG and no government assistance today for LPG purchase, Ghana, Brazil, and Mexico, are discussed last. 2021-07-19T14:28:00Z 2021-07-19T14:28:00Z 2021-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/475411626156399447/Subsidizing-Bottled-Gas-Approaches-and-Effects-on-Household-Use http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35948 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS
COOKING FUEL
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LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS
COOKING FUEL
Kojima, Masami
Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
description The paper presents the nine country cases and draws lessons in the concluding section. Indonesia, which is the only country in this paper that has retained universal price subsidies to date, is covered first. Senegal, with repeated attempts to end price subsidies followed by re-introduction, is described next, followed by the Dominican Republic and El Salvador, two countries that have replaced universal price subsidies with cash transfers. Peru, which has set strict targeting criteria for conditional cash transfers, and India, the conditional cash transfer program of which is the largest program of its kind in the world, follow. Three countries with deregulated pricing of LPG and no government assistance today for LPG purchase, Ghana, Brazil, and Mexico, are discussed last.
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author Kojima, Masami
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title Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
title_short Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
title_full Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
title_fullStr Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
title_full_unstemmed Subsidizing Bottled Gas : Approaches and Effects on Household Use
title_sort subsidizing bottled gas : approaches and effects on household use
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/475411626156399447/Subsidizing-Bottled-Gas-Approaches-and-Effects-on-Household-Use
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