Ruth Daroesman was the first Assistant Editor of the <italic>Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies</italic>. She joined the ANU in 1968 and for the next 15 years worked alongside Professor Heinz Arndt, head of the then Department of Economics in the Research School of Pacific Studies, in building the journal's...

The literature on off-farm sources of income in rural areas of developing countries continues to grow. This paper uses data from the household income surveys carried out as part of the 1983 and 1993 agricultural censuses to explore aspects of the changing role of off-farm income sources for...

This paper examines the changing role of the central government in the final years of the Soeharto era and since 1998. It argues that although economic policy making is now conducted in a very different political climate from that of the Soeharto period, there remains a powerful institutional...

This paper surveys the evidence on trends in poverty and inequality during the years of Soeharto's presidency. That Indonesia saw a decline in the incidence of poverty, and improvements in other welfare indicators such as infant mortality rates and literacy rates over these years, seems...