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Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2019

Citizens have a right to accept any job offer in their country, but that right is not marketable or automatically extended to foreigners. Yet, some citizens have useful things to do if they could rent out their right-to-work, and there are foreigners who would value the new options for...

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Definition matters : metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country

Bosker, Maarten; Park, Jane; Roberts, Mark - 2018

on Indonesia and makes use of the availability of data on commuting flows, remotely-sensed nighttime lights, and … the literature. The analysis finds that the maps and characteristics of Indonesia's urban landscape vary substantially … detailed micro-data from Indonesia's national labor force survey, the paper shows that the estimated size of the agglomeration …

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Safety nets and safety ropes : who benefited from two Indonesian crisis programs, the "poor" or the "shocked?"

Sumarto, Sudarno; Suryahadi, Asep; Pritchett, Lant - 2000

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Finding the poor vs. measuring their poverty : exploring the drivers of targeting effectiveness in Indonesia

Bah, Adama; Bazzi, Samuel; Sumarto, Sudarno; Tobias, Julia - 2018

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …

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Indonesia: labor market policies and international competitiveness : background paper for World development report 1995

Agrawal, Nisha - 1995

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Indonesian labor legislation in a comparative perspective : a study of six APEC countries

Nayar, Reema - 1996

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Identifying urban areas by combining human judgment and machine learning : an application to India

Galdo, Virgilio; Li, Yue; Rama, Martín - 2020

This paper proposes a methodology for identifying urban areas that combines subjective assessments with machine learning, and applies it to India, a country where several studies see the official urbanization rate as an under-estimate. For a representative sample of cities, towns and villages,...

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Sustaining poverty gains : a vulnerability map to guide social policy

Barriga Cabanillas, Oscar; Bossuroy, Thomas; Corral … - 2024

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming...

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The social value of health insurance : results from Ghana

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Reichert, Arndt R.; Strupat, … - 2019

This paper uses the roll-out of the national health insurance in Ghana to assess the cushioning effect of coverage on the financial consequences of health shocks and resulting changes in coping behaviors. The analysis finds a strong reduction in medical expenditures, preventing households from...

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Socioeconomic resilience in Sri Lanka : natural disaster poverty and wellbeing impact assessment

Walsh, Brian; Hallegatte, Stéphane - 2019

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the main measure of disaster severity. Using an agent-based...

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