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Strategies for Reforming Fossil-Fuel Subsidies: Practical lessons from Ghana, France and Senegal

3 May 2010

This paper analyzes the experiences of countries that have undertaken reform of their fossil-fuel subsidies and establishes what lessons can be learned. It focuses in particular on France, Ghana and Senegal, as well as drawing from case studies of other countries and previous work that examines the reform of energy subsidies and price subsidies. The paper finds there is no single formula for success, but six important strategies are identified:

Authors

Tara Laan, Christopher Beaton, Bertille Presta

Published in
Canada