We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects …

coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …

We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification … lower extent of, asset holding diversification …

countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to … shocks. In this case study the UAE economic performance is examined, and a data-driven roadmap for sustainable growth is … suggested. The analysis shows that greater efforts are needed to stimulate the diversification of the production base by …

A large, mature and robust economic literature on pay for performance now exists, whichprovides a useful framework for … thinking about pay for performance systems. I use thelessons of the literature to discuss how to design and implement pay for … performance inpractice.... …

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model …

This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential … under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from …