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This study focuses on the efficiency of minimum wage policy for poverty reduction, taking Indonesia as a case study. A … findings suggest that minimum wages are unlikely to be an effective antipoverty instrument, at least for Indonesia. …
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Based on 2008-2010 Susenas panel data, this study analyzes expenditure inequality in Indonesia from spatial …
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Indonesia experienced growing shortfalls of food supplies during the 1950s and during the 1960s and 1970s it imported … increasing amounts of rice, wheat and wheat flour. This paper investigates the role of food aid in this development. In the 1950s,Indonesia … supply food aid as grants,Indonesia did not request such food aid until 1966. Donations of wheat flour, rice and other food …
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attention is paid to the key economic crisis events of 1997-98 and 2008-09, and how and why Indonesia's response to them was …
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The Asia-Pacific region is the major source of global growth in greenhouse gas emissions. Strong action is needed in Asian countries, particularly China and India, to reduce these global emissions. Driven by the desire to limit energy consumption, some Asian countries already have domestic...
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Employment generation has been a challenge in Indonesia since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), especially in labor …
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longitudinal dataset on Indonesia, we find strong negative effects of child labor on the growth of both numeracy and cognitive …
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We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset …
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Indonesia is a net importer of almost all of its staple foods. National selfsufficiency in food, especially the main …, Indonesia has used agricultural input subsidies, especially on fertilizer, to stimulate agricultural production, largely in …
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This paper studies the variation in village head selection rules across Indonesia using panel data over 1997–2007. The …
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