Energy Subsidy Reform in Egypt: The Gender   'Energy' Poverty Nexus

Hamidi, Fatma El

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“…However, in the long run, the intensity of the policy effects declined. In other words, although the energy statistics show a decline in the consumption of some energy commodities, the fall was mainly due to government supplements such as quotas, fuel smart cards, and control of liquefied gas cylinders 60 . But in other countries such as Egypt, the smart fuel card was not an effective policy to control inflation and energy consumption, as Elshennawy 88 mentioned.…”

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“…Moreover, redistributing a small share of the savings from this policy to vulnerable households is enough to offset the negative impacts of the policy on overall prices. A cash transfer to poor households and targeting subsidies to support infrastructure and food are the most effective methods to offset the negative impacts of policy on household welfare 60–62 . Removing fossil fuel subsidies reallocates primary factors (i.e., labor and capital) across all economic sectors, especially across energy‐intensive activities that develop the overall efficiency of the economy and, in the long run, increases economic development by increasing the value addition of energy‐intensive sectors 63,64 .…”

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“…Researchers used different models and variables to estimate the impacts of the removal of energy subsidies on energy consumption and CO 2 emissions. Many studies have introduced energy consumption as a function of GDP, energy commodity prices, trade, and a dummy variable to check the impacts of energy subsidy reform policy 60,72 . Wasti and Zaidi 73 by investigating the relationship between CO 2 emissions and energy consumption considered CO 2 emissions as a function of GDP, trade, inflation, and energy consumption.…”

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Energy subsidy reform evaluation research – reviews in Iran

Solaymani

2021

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This paper provides an ex post evaluation of Iran's energy subsidy reform of main law, definitions, its aims and scope, its effectiveness, and problems. Based on an assessment of policy reports, actual data, peer‐reviewed studies, and regression models, this study suggests evidence that the removal of energy subsidies in Iran was effective in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions only in the first 2 years of policy implementation. But, over the next years, the demand for energy commodities increased because of the incomplete implementation of the policy. Besides some local and international economic, social, and political challenges, the policy was not completed in the subsequent years because the government did not prepare its preliminary theoretical framework and requirements in the three stages of legislation and transparency – implementation and management, control, and adjustment of the negative policy impacts. Moreover, the decline in environmental emissions occurred mainly due to fuel switching, as natural gas consumption in power plants, industries, and transport, and rather the use of renewable energies, increased substantially. Likewise, at the time of removal of energy subsidies, the government introduced a cash transfer scheme until the present. This compensation scheme has had significant burdens on the government budget and reaches the trillions of rials each year, while in the first year of the policy, it improved the socioeconomic welfare. The econometric results showed that removing energy subsidies is an effective policy in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Iran. This study provides important policy recommendations for sustainable energy security and economic development in Iran. © 2021 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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