Argentina, Dec. 19 -- The World Bank Board of Directors approved an additional financing of US$300 million to strengthen institutional capacity for optimizing the scope of gas subsidies, protecting the most vulnerable households, and promoting fiscal and environmental sustainability in the energy sector.This additional financing builds on the project "Supporting the Transition to a Sustainable Electricity Sector," which improved the Energy Subsidy Access Registry (RASE), successfully reclassifying 1.2 million households. The new project aims to reach both network users and bottled gas users, with special attention to low income households and regions without access to piped gas, where people rely on bottled gas mainly for cooking.The projec...