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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111120
	Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador
	Schaffitzel F.; Jakob M.; Soria R.; Vogt-Schilb A.; Ward H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	137
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
英文关键词	Distributional impacts; Ecuador; Energy subsidy reform; Input-output analysis; Political feasibility; Revenue recycling
学科领域	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
语种	英语
scopus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
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118159
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
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Schaffitzel F.,Jakob M.,Soria R.,et al. Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador[J],2020,137.
APA	Schaffitzel F.,Jakob M.,Soria R.,Vogt-Schilb A.,&Ward H..(2020).Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador.Energy Policy,137.
MLA	Schaffitzel F.,et al."Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador".Energy Policy 137(2020).