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surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …
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further poverty reduction in Indonesia. To provide a good technical basis for answering this question, the authors use an …Indonesia experienced rapid growth and the expansion of the formal financial sector during the last quarter of the 20th …, macroeconomic stability has since then been restored, and poverty has been reduced to pre-crisis levels. Poverty reduction remains …
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. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in that country. A … decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have blunted the poverty impacts of …
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This paper studies the long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program, which was one of the largest ever conducted. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that education benefits for men and...
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and middle-income countries-India, Indonesia, Tanzania, and Paraguay. The authors describe two methods-testing doctors and …
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construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s is used to construct an instrumental variable for education. The choice between use … Indonesia Family Life Survey are used for this paper. Standard regression models estimated in the paper indicate that each …
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care services. This paper estimates the impact of Indonesia's healthcard on health care use by children. Evaluation of the …
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Indonesia's oil revenues and fuel subsidies dominate the nation's economic policy agenda. This paper estimates the … on Indonesia's public finances declines as oil prices rise, because subsidies and other expenditures outgrow oil and gas …
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Indonesia's "big bang" decentralization in 2001 shifted much of the responsibility for local economic development from … has varied widely. This paper attempts to understand the determinants of sub-national (district/city) growth in Indonesia …
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Indonesia Family Life Survey for 1993 and 2000, to show which pathways out of poverty were most successful over this period. The … farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural … findings suggest that increased engagement of farmers in rural nonfarm enterprises is an important route out of rural poverty …
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