This paper reviews forestry reform in the Congo basin, focusing on Gabon. It argues that the key challenge for the … Congo basin countries is to manage their forests in a sustainable manner. It presents the current situation of forestry … taxation and forestry reform in Gabon. The paper analyzes optimal taxation in the forestry sector using a static model. The …

Countries generally tax the forestry sector to achieve the twin objectives of revenue maximization and sustainability …-have limited the use of auctions so far, particularly in low-income countries. To establish transparency of the forestry sector …

schemes to strengthen mitigation incentives for the transportation, industry, building, forestry, and agricultural sectors …

. Empirical results based on macro and firm-level data from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand (ASEAN-3) support this hypothesis …

, however, was not uniform. Even in a relatively homogenous group of countries such as ASEAN-4 (Indonesia, Malaysia, the … impact on more open economies (Malaysia and Thailand). Second, countercyclical fiscal stimulus in Indonesia and the … Philippines was larger and was sustained longer. Third, idiosyncratic factors pushed output up in Indonesia and down in Thailand …

episodes for Indonesia and Philippines and consider its adaptation to integrated policy frameworks as an area for further …

Since the adoption of the inflation targeting framework by Bank Indonesia (BI), monetary policy communication has … focusing on its monetary policy press releases and monetary policy reports. The results show that Bank Indonesia has made …

risks to the economy. This paper assesses corporate vulnerabilities in Indonesia by using a Bottom-Up Default Analysis (BuDA …