This report assesses the Annual Progress Report on the implementation of the Sustainable Development and Poverty … Reduction Program (SDPRP), which is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper for Ethiopia. It reviews the fundamental development …

economic diversification would reduce their exposure to volatility and uncertainty in the global oil market, help create jobs … limited. This paper argues that increased diversification will require realigning incentives for firms and workers in the … economies—fixing these incentives is the “missing link†in the GCC countries’ diversification strategies. At present …

government bonds and Short-term Bank Indonesia certificates (SBIs). The financial and corporate sectors were resilient to the …

-term outlook reflects the more challenging global environment that Indonesia faces. …

ended on July 6, 2012, with the officials of Indonesia on economic developments and policies. Based on information available …

companies, and pension funds. Bank Indonesia (BI), the central bank, is responsible for regulation and supervision of the …

, however, was not uniform. Even in a relatively homogenous group of countries such as ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the … output performance relative to trend. There are several main reasons for the divergence. First, trade shocks had a larger … impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the …