Balancing ACT: Cutting Energy Subsidies While Protecting Affordability

by Chris Trimble, Anne Olivier, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further pressures for tariffs to rise come from environmental concerns, as the tariff levels that households now face do not cover the social costs of energy production. Because reforms that would increase energy tariffs are likely to affect significantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821397893
• ISBN13: 9780821397893
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.9"