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Understanding who benefits from fuel price subsidies and the welfare impact of increasing fuel prices is key to designing, and gaining public support for, subsidy reform. This paper updates evidence for developing countries on the magnitude of the welfare impact of subsidy reform and its distribution across income groups, incorporating more recent studies and expanding the number of countries. ...

W ith the election of Bill Clinton as presiden t , Americans have asked for renewed attention to domestic and economic policies. A critical part of the U.S. domestic front demanding attention is healthcare reform. However, the message voters sent Clinton on healthcare reform is far from clear. Several postelection public opinion surveys show that, although voters believed healthcare reform was ...

A.L. MANSON, N. CHAPMAN, Y. WEDATILAKE, M. BALIC, H. MARWAY, S.L. SENEVIRATNE and P. HOLLOWAY From the Department of Clinical Immunology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1NY, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London W2 1PG, Department of Chemical Pathology, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Hea...