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The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program : The Global "Go-To Think Tanksâ€
James G. McGann, Ph.D. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This project grew out of the never ending requests I receive from journalists, scholars and government officials to provide a list of the leading think tanks in a particular country or region of the world. Last year I launched a pilot project that was designed to identify some of the leading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647682
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Economic Reforms in Indonesia after the 1997/98 Economic Crisis
Soesastro, Hadi; Aswicahyono, Haryo; Narjoko, Dionisius A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper reviews the experience of undertaking reforms in Indonesia after the economic crisis 1997/98, focusing on the reforms made under the last two presidents : Megawati and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The review leads the paper to draw some lessons from the experience. Among other, the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363682
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Economic Reforms in Indonesia After The 1997/98 Economic Crisis
Soesastro, Hada; Aswicahyono, Haryo; Narjoko, Dionisius A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
This paper reviews the experience of undertaking reforms in Indonesia after the economic crisis 1997/98, focusing on the reforms made under the last two presidents - Megawati and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The review leads the paper to draw some lessons from the experience. Among other, the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363699
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Managerial Efficiency in Family Owned Firms in Pakistan - An Examination of Listed Firms
Zaidi, Rida; Aslam, Ahmad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
level of training, education and experience across this business form. We find great degree of concentration of family … training schemes, with some firms not having any access to training budgets. We find more democratic decision-making structures … involving outsiders and regular training of management are key to superior performance among family firms for several reasons. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365379
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Pakistan’s Trade Policy, 1999–2008 : An Assessment
Baig, Mirza Qamar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Employing the Annual Trade Policy issued each year by the Ministry of Commerce as a simplified case study, this paper examines the reasons for the ineffectiveness of this policy instrument and the inherent inconsistencies and conflicting signals to the market that it contains. Capacity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363467
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Public Policy Towards the Elderly in Indonesia : Current Policy and Future Directions
Arifianto, Alex - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In the past few years, public policy towards the elderly has become an emerging policy issue for Indonesia. With one-third of all Indonesians predicted to be elderly (i.e. aged 60 years or older) in the year 2050, millions of citizens are vulnerable to old age poverty, since many of them will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363955
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Public Provision of Education and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on education in Pakistan at the provincial (both rural and urban) level, using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-2005, and by employing the three-step Benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365048
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Health Care Services and Government Spending in Pakistan
Akram, Muhammad; Khan, Faheem Jehangir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The study has been carried out to measure the incidence of government spending on health in Pakistan at provincial, both rural and urban level; using the primary data of the Pakistan Social Standard Living Measures Survey (PSLM), 2004-05, and by employing the three-step Benefit Incidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365055
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Delivering Access to Safe Drinking Water and Adequate Sanitation in Pakistan
Khan, Faheem Jehangir; Javed, Yaser - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Provision of safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and personal hygiene are vital for the sustainable environmental conditions and reducing the incidence of diarrhoea, malaria, trachoma, hepatitis A & B and morbidity levels. Not having access to water and sanitation is a courteous expression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365294
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Social Overhead Capital Development and Geographical Concentration
Aso, Yoshibumi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In recent economic geography, it is emphasized that the effect of cost decreasing in transportation on agglomeration is nonlinear. It is said that the influence of traffic infrastructure investment and the change in transportation cost on urban agglomeration does not appear until the cost is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365505