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Zusatztext 91715599 Informationen zum Autor Jun Rentschler is an Economist (YP) at The World Bank working at the intersection of climate change and sustainable resilient development. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, the Payne Institute for Earth Resources in Colorado, and the Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. Prior, he worked at the German Foreign Ministry and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). He is a co-author of the book Investing in Resource Efficiency: The Economics and Politics of Financing the Resource Transition (2018). Klappentext This book provides a guide to the complex challenge of designing, assessing, and implementing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms. Rather than treating subsidy reforms as a purely fiscal affair, this book emphasises that subsidy reforms can contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development objectives. Zusammenfassung This book provides a guide to the complex challenge of designing, assessing, and implementing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms. Rather than treating subsidy reforms as a purely fiscal affair, this book emphasises that subsidy reforms can contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development objectives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Preface by Marianne Fay 1 Introduction: and a guide for navigating this book 2 Reforming fossil fuel subsidies: drivers, barriers, and the state of progress 3 The impacts on households: the regional variation of poverty effects due to subsidy reform – evidence from Nigeria 4 Subsidy reforms and the impacts on firms: transmission channels and response measures 5 Energy price variation and competitiveness: firm level evidence from Indonesia 6 Illicit dealings: general equilibrium effects of fossil fuel subsidy reform, and the role of tax evasion and smuggling 7 Limits to green fiscal reform: how market distortions undermine price signals and create barriers to efficiency and clean energy 8 Principles for designing effective fossil fuel subsidy reforms Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Index ...
