11:00, 02 июня 2017, 24.kg
The poor don’t benefit from low electricity tariffs
The poor don’t benefit from low electricity tariffs, the economist of the World Bank office in Kyrgyzstan Bakyt Dubashov said today at a press conference.
According to him, about 6 percent of households' expenditures are energy resources payments.
Subsidies are used by those who can pay at a higher rate. The rich receive 2.5 times more aid from the state.
«Vulnerable segments of the population don’t use these benefits in full. The energy sector is a key factor in fiscal stress. Tariff reform will be necessary under any scenario," Bakyt Dubashov said.
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