01839cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013134 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475512878 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Mitra, Pritha. Ukraine Gas Pricing Policy : Distributional Consequences of Tariff Increases / Pritha Mitra, Ruben Atoyan. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (23 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Ukraine's gas pricing policy subsidizes gas and heating for all households. As the cost of imported gas rises, this policy increasingly weighs on government finances, sustains energy over-consumption, dampens investment in delivery systems, and undermines incentives for domestic production. However, gas price hikes have been deferred to the medium-term as they are politically unpopular. Through estimation of household demand functions by income quintiles to evaluate the distributional consequences of tarrif reform, this paper finds that tariff reforms combined with targeted social support can address the economic inefficiencies of the current pricing policy without large welfare costs to the lower income segments of the population. Mode of access: Internet Atoyan, Ruben. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/247 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/247/001.2012.issue-247-en.xml IMF e-Library