The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives

More than a decade of energy and transport subsidies have weakened Argentina’s fiscal capacity. Following the 2001 crisis, public services tariffs were frozen in an attempt to offset the negative effects on households’ real purchasing power. Howeve...

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Main Authors:	Lakner, Christoph, Lugo, Maria Ana, Puig, Jorge, Salinardi, Leandro, Viveros, Martha
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	subsidies electricity power public transport public service delivery water gas
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698142/incidence-subsidies-residential-public-services-argentina-subsidy-system-2014-some-alternatives http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24987

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spelling	okr-10986-249872021-05-25T08:51:11Z The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives Lakner, Christoph Lugo, Maria Ana Puig, Jorge Salinardi, Leandro Viveros, Martha subsidies electricity power public transport public service delivery water gas More than a decade of energy and transport subsidies have weakened Argentina’s fiscal capacity. Following the 2001 crisis, public services tariffs were frozen in an attempt to offset the negative effects on households’ real purchasing power. However, these subsidies steadily increased over the years, particularly since 2006, becoming a significant fiscal burden. Though subsidies can be a tool to protect the poor, in Argentina they led to distortions and a large share have been absorbed by upper classes and non-residential consumers. This report starts by analyzing the incidence of the 2014 system of residential federal subsidies to residential public services (defined as electricity, gas, water and transport) building on the work by Puig and Salinardi (2015). This paper consists of six main sections. Section two presents the results on the incidence of subsidies to public services. Section three simulates the distributional impacts of alternative systems for electricity, gas and transport subsidies. Section four concludes. The methodological Appendix provides full details of the methods and data used in this paper. 2016-08-31T15:28:59Z 2016-08-31T15:28:59Z 2016 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698142/incidence-subsidies-residential-public-services-argentina-subsidy-system-2014-some-alternatives http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24987 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Argentina
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spellingShingle	subsidies electricity power public transport public service delivery water gas Lakner, Christoph Lugo, Maria Ana Puig, Jorge Salinardi, Leandro Viveros, Martha The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
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description	More than a decade of energy and transport subsidies have weakened Argentina’s fiscal capacity. Following the 2001 crisis, public services tariffs were frozen in an attempt to offset the negative effects on households’ real purchasing power. However, these subsidies steadily increased over the years, particularly since 2006, becoming a significant fiscal burden. Though subsidies can be a tool to protect the poor, in Argentina they led to distortions and a large share have been absorbed by upper classes and non-residential consumers. This report starts by analyzing the incidence of the 2014 system of residential federal subsidies to residential public services (defined as electricity, gas, water and transport) building on the work by Puig and Salinardi (2015). This paper consists of six main sections. Section two presents the results on the incidence of subsidies to public services. Section three simulates the distributional impacts of alternative systems for electricity, gas and transport subsidies. Section four concludes. The methodological Appendix provides full details of the methods and data used in this paper.
format	Working Paper
author	Lakner, Christoph Lugo, Maria Ana Puig, Jorge Salinardi, Leandro Viveros, Martha
author_facet	Lakner, Christoph Lugo, Maria Ana Puig, Jorge Salinardi, Leandro Viveros, Martha
author_sort	Lakner, Christoph
title	The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
title_short	The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
title_full	The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
title_fullStr	The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
title_full_unstemmed	The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives
title_sort	incidence of subsidies to residential public services in argentina : the subsidy system in 2014 and some alternatives
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/08/26698142/incidence-subsidies-residential-public-services-argentina-subsidy-system-2014-some-alternatives http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24987
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The Incidence of Subsidies to Residential Public Services in Argentina : The Subsidy System in 2014 and Some Alternatives

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