TY - BOOK ID - 30499280 TI - Modeling macro-critical energy sectors in low-income countries : a general framework and an application to Cote d'Ivoire PY - 2006 VL - WP/08/156 SN - 146232956X 1452757151 1282841076 1451870140 9786612841071 1451914679 PB - [Washington, District of Columbia] : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Petroleum KW - Natural gas KW - Electric utilities KW - Econometric models. KW - Electric companies KW - Electric light and power industry KW - Electric power industry KW - Gas, Natural KW - Sour gas KW - Coal-oil KW - Crude oil KW - Oil KW - Electric industries KW - Energy industries KW - Public utilities KW - Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous KW - Hydrocarbons KW - Caustobioliths KW - Mineral oils KW - Investments: Energy KW - Industries: Energy KW - Energy: General KW - Electric Utilities KW - Hydrocarbon Resources KW - Energy and the Macroeconomy KW - Macroeconomics: Production KW - Investment & securities KW - Petroleum, oil & gas industries KW - Electricity KW - Natural gas sector KW - Energy sector KW - Oil production KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Gas industry KW - Côte d'Ivoire UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30499280 AB - This paper proposes a general framework for monitoring macro-critical energy sectors in low-income countries, defined as consisting of the three subsectors of crude oil and natural gas production, refinery, and electricity production. It aims to derive consistent information on physical and financial flows in the sector, including on interlinkages between the subsectors. It then applies this framework to Côte d'Ivoire. While being an important source of growth, the Ivoirien energy sector is found to have important shortcomings, in particular as regards transparency, efficiency and contribution to fiscal revenue. Among the key problems are partially intransparent production sharing arrangements for hydrocarbon production, price distortions for natural gas, administered prices for refined petroleum products, underfunding and lack of investment in the electricity sector, and inefficient government subsidies in the latter two subsectors. ER -