Distributional Impacts of Energy Cross-Subsidization in Transition Economies : Evidence from Belarus

Subsidies and cross-subsidies in the energy sector are common throughout Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In Belarus, revenues from an industrial tariff on electricity are used to cross-subsidize heating for households. Input-output (IO) data and a...

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Main Authors: Grainger, Corbett, Zhang, Fan, Schreiber, Andrew
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:
TAX
OIL
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/08/24879184/distributional-impacts-energy-cross-subsidization-transition-economies-evidence-belarus
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22443