Ukraine gas pricing policy : distributional consequences of tariff increases /

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Author / Creator:	Mitra, Pritha, 1974-
Imprint:	Washington, DC : International Monetary Fund, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (22 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/12/247 IMF working paper ; no. 12/247.
Subject:	Natural gas -- Prices -- Ukraine. Natural gas -- Economic aspects -- Ukraine. Natural gas -- Economic aspects. Natural gas -- Prices. Ukraine.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169292

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Other authors / contributors:	Atoyan, Ruben (Ruben V.)
ISBN:	9781475512908 1475512902 1475512872 9781475512878 1475512880 9781475512885 9781475512878 9781475512885
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"October 2012." Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	Ukraine's gas pricing policy subsidizes gas and heating for all households. As the cost of imported gas rises, this policy increasingly weighs on government finances, sustains energy over-consumption, dampens investment in delivery systems, and undermines incentives for domestic production. However, gas price hikes have been deferred to the medium-term as they are politically unpopular. Through estimation of household demand functions by income quintiles to evaluate the distributional consequences of tarrif reform, this paper finds that tariff reforms combined with targeted social support can address the economic inefficiencies of the current pricing policy without large welfare costs to the lower income segments of the population.

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