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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111120
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Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador
作者: Schaffitzel F.; Jakob M.; Soria R.; Vogt-Schilb A.; Ward H.
刊名: Energy Policy
ISSN: 03014215
出版年: 2020
卷: 137
语种: 英语
中文关键词: Distributional impacts ; Ecuador ; Energy subsidy reform ; Input-output analysis ; Political feasibility ; Revenue recycling
英文关键词: Budget control ; Economic analysis ; Gasoline ; Distributional impacts ; Ecuador ; Energy subsidies ; Input output analysis ; Political feasibility ; Liquefied petroleum gas ; demand analysis ; energy efficiency ; energy market ; energy policy ; feasibility study ; gas trade ; input-output analysis ; local government ; subsidy system ; Ecuador
英文摘要: Energy subsidies cost Ecuador 7% of its public budget, or two thirds of the fiscal deficit. Removing these subsidies would yield local economic and environmental benefits and help implement climate targets set in the Paris Agreement. However, adverse effects on vulnerable households can make subsidy reforms politically difficult. To inform policy design, we assess the distributional impacts of energy subsidy reform using Ecuadorian household data and an augmented input-output table. We find that subsidy removal without compensation would be regressive for diesel and LPG, progressive for gasoline, and approximately neutral for electricity. We then analyze how freed up public revenues could fund in-kind and in-cash compensation schemes to mitigate income losses for poor households. Our results indicate that removing all energy subsidies and increasing the cash transfer program, Bono de Desarrollo Humano (BDH), by nearly US$ 50 per month would increase the real income of the poorest quintile by 10% while leaving more than US$ 1.3 billion for the public budget. Finally, we conduct interviews with local policy makers and experts to identify two reform options that are progressive and considered feasible: eliminating subsidies on gasoline while increasing the BDH and replacing universal LPG subsidies with targeted LPG vouchers. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/167466
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作者单位: Department Economics of Climate Change, Technical University of Berlin, Str. d. 17. Juni 145, Berlin, 10623, Germany; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Torgauer Str. 12-15, Berlin, 10829, Germany; Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, Quito, 17-01-2759, Ecuador; Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue, N.W, Washington, D.C, 20577, United States; Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Department of Industrial Ecology, Leiden University, P.O.Box 9518, RA, Leiden, 2300, Netherlands; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Postfach 60 12 03, Potsdam, 14412, Germany

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Schaffitzel F.,Jakob M.,Soria R.,et al. Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador[J]. Energy Policy,2020-01-01,137
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