Author/Editor: John M Piotrowski, David Coady, Justin Tyson, Rolando Ossowski, Robert Gillingham, Shamsuddin Tareq.

Release Date:February, 2010

Petroleum product subsidies have again started to increase with the rebound in international prices. This note reviews recent developments in subsidy levels and argues that reforming the policy more...

Author/Editor: David Locke Newhouse, Irene Yackovlev, Robert Gillingham.

Release Date:July, 2008

This paper uses household survey data to estimate the incidence of tax and spending programs in Honduras. Any such exercise is fraught with difficulty, so our simplifying assumptions are carefully more...

Author/Editor: Robert Gillingham.

Release Date:March, 2008

The Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) is used by the IMF to provide support for countries’ implementation of their poverty reduction and growth strategies. A key requirement in the more...

Author/Editor: John S Greenlees, James E Duggan, Robert Gillingham.

Release Date:January, 2007

Studies of the empirical relationship between income and mortality often rely on data aggregated by geographic areas and broad population groups and do not distinguish disabled and nondisabled more...

Author/Editor: Robert Gillingham, David Locke Newhouse, David Coady, Kangni Kpodar, Moataz El-Said, Paulo A Medas.

Release Date:November, 2006

With the recent jump in world oil prices, the issue of petroleum product pricing has become increasingly important in developing countries. Reflecting a reluctance of many governments to pass these more...

Author/Editor: Robert Gillingham, Daniel Kanda.

Release Date:September, 2001

This paper reviews the current state of the pension system in India, as well as plans to reform it. Problems with the current system are identified, and, within this context, the appropriate role of more...