Libya: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2013/151, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The cost of energy subsidies is large, and reduces the fiscal space available for public expenditure priorities, including education, health, and infrastructure. Libya’s ample hydrocarbon wealth will allow it to reform subsidies while protecting the poor. A gradual phasing out of subsidies would allow adjustment in consumption and minimize the inflationary impact, thereby allowing the social assistance system to be strengthened. After a transfer mechanism is in place to facilitate fuel and electricity subsidy reform, food subsidy reform should be undertaken.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; fuel price Subsidies; fuel price subsidy; price distortion; cost recovery; petroleum product price; price elasticity; price Subsidies; recovery of electricity; subsidized price; Energy subsidies; Fuel prices; Consumption; Energy pricing; Inflation; Middle East; North Africa; East Africa; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2013-05-31
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