Documents et rapports
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Government response to oil price volatility : experience of 49 developing countries (anglais)
Oil prices rose from 2004 to historic highs in mid-2008, only to fall precipitously in the last four months of 2008 and lose all the gains of the preceding four and a half years. The steep price increase...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 51116 Date du document: 1 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kojima,Masami
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Changing patterns of household expenditures on energy : a case study of Indonesia and Pakistan (anglais)
This paper applies a decomposition technique using a log mean Divisia index to two sets of household surveys taken several years apart in Indonesia and Pakistan. The methodology enables separation of changes...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 49968 Date du document: 1 juin 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bacon,Robert W.,Bhattacharya,Soma,Kojima,Masami
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Changes in end-user petroleum product prices : a comparison of 48 Countries (anglais)
This paper presents retail prices of the petroleum products in August 2008 in up to 56 countries, and examines the degree of pass through to consumers of increases in world gasoline and diesel prices since...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 48423 Date du document: 1 février 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kojima,Masami
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Vulnerability to oil price increases : a decomposition analysis of 161 countries (anglais)
This paper examines the levels of and changes in vulnerability to oil price increases between 1996 and 2006 in 161 countries for which data are available. Vulnerability defined here as the ratio of the...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 48422 Date du document: 1 août 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami
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Oil price risks (anglais)
Oil prices more than tripled between January 2004 and March 2008. The effects can be hard on countries with large net oil imports relative to income. This note sets out a measure of vulnerability to oil...
Type de document: Point de vue Numéro du rapport: 44610 Date du document: 1 juin 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bacon,Robert W.,Kojima,Masami