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Designing energy subsidy reform strategy for emerging economies

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Many countries have incorporated specific measures into their subsidy reform strategies to overcome the barriers of energy improvement. Country reform experiences suggests the following key elements can increase the likelihood of successful subsidy reform: A comprehensive reform plan; A...
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Reforming local energy subsidy and competitiveness

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Energy subsidies are pervasive and impose substantial fiscal and economic costs in most countries. On a – pre-tax basis, subsidies for petroleum products, electricity and natural gas are high, when compared to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and total government...
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Letter-to-the-Editor: Guyana needs to change political culture to reap full benefits from oil

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Over the past few days I have attended the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas with its expansive display by hundreds of companies and countries including Guyana as well as conference sessions and collateral events. Guyana is well...
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Macroeconomic effects of oil price volatility and the implications of energy subsidy reforms

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Sharp increases in the price of oil and other energy products are referred to as classical examples of negative supply shocks (Hamilton 2005). Increases in the price of oil lead to increases in the cost of production, which in...
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Management of resource income spending for Guyana

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Countries making resource discoveries often find themselves facing a number of important and difficult decisions. One such decision regards whether to set up a sovereign wealth fund – or more generally, determining a time profile for the usage of...
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Enabling resource-rich Guyana to reduce poverty and inequality

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What should a government in a resource-rich state do about the gap between rich and poor populations (vertical inequality), and the gap between resource-rich and resource-poor regions (horizontal inequality)? Indeed, oil and gas exporters tend to have more varied...
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The push for a fast development agenda for the emerging Guyanese economy

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To understand why, in the case of most countries, stronger linkages with the rest of the economy have not emerged over time, it is necessary to look at how and at what speed the sector developed as well as...
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Infrastructural development linkages from the newly discovered resource

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
Asking what constitutes successful development in the cases of countries with extractive sectors is a useful way of circumventing the biases stemming from the resource-curse theory and the extractives-led growth agenda. Clearly, diversification of the economy away from the resource...
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Considerations for delivering a successful extractives-Led growth agenda for Guyana

Bobby Gossai, Jr. -
In terms of practical policy and economic advice, the extractives-led growth agenda has tended to reinforce domestic, government and investor pressures to ‘develop fast’. At the same time, it will reinforce the emergence of several initiatives to enhance transparency,...
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Guyana hopes oil will bring wealth – not corruption and crisis

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Speaking in an article published in The Conversation, visiting Assistant Professor of Politics and International Studies at US-based Centre College, Jennapher Lunde Seefeldt, says when Guyana begins producing oil by 2020, its Gross Domestic Product is expected to increase...
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