| 来源类型 | Papers
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.26889/9781784670931
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| Assessing Kuwaiti Energy Pricing Reforms |
| Manal Shehabi
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| 发表日期 | 2017-11-13
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| 出版年 | 2017
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| 页码 | 3
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | From mid-2014 Kuwait has experienced a substantial drop in its oil export price and, consequently, government revenue, causing a severe fiscal deficit and impaired economic performance. Cutting energy subsidies has become a policy priority. In the face of widespread opposition, the government raised gasoline prices in August 2016, proclaiming such reform key to solving its […] |
| 摘要 | From mid-2014 Kuwait has experienced a substantial drop in its oil export price and, consequently, government revenue, causing a severe fiscal deficit and impaired economic performance. Cutting energy subsidies has become a policy priority. In the face of widespread opposition, the government raised gasoline prices in August 2016, proclaiming such reform key to solving its economic problems; yet recent policy discussions have not addressed the mechanism of pricing reforms. The paper offers a quantification and assessment of energy pricing reform in the current low oil price environment via a general equilibrium model of the Kuwaiti economy that embodies the structure of its economy and its labour market, its oligopolistic industries and their collusive pricing behaviour, and external flows associated with its sovereign wealth fund. Simulations clarify the required adjustments, including the seldom discussed expatriate labour exit and the decline in oligopoly rents. While necessary, subsidy reform implies tradeoffs, notably between fiscal stabilisation and cost of living sustainability. The results confirm that successful implementation must be accompanied by carefully designed mitigation measures and associated microeconomic reforms. |
| 主题 | Country and Regional Studies
; Energy Policy
; Oil & Middle East Programme
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| 关键词 | Competition Reform
Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)
Energy pricing reform
Flexibility of Labour Markets
Kuwait
MEP 17
MEP17
Oil Price Shocks
Welfare Transfers
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| URL | https://www.oxfordenergy.org/publications/assessing-kuwaiti-energy-pricing-reforms/
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| 来源智库 | Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/312507
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