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Aid and policy preference in oil-rich countries : comparing Indonesia and Nigeria
Fuady, Ahmad Helmy - 2014
This paper analyses the role of foreign aid to assist development in two oil-rich countries: Indonesia and Nigeria. This paper seeks to understand the way foreign aid provided assistance to transform Indonesia from a 'fragile' state in the 1960s into one of the 'Asian Tigers' in the mid-1990s,...
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Lessons for Japanese foreign aid from research on aid's impact
Addison, Tony; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Japan has an impressive history when it comes to aid, industrial policy, and infrastructure development, both as a …, and recognizing the critical role it played in the development of Japan, is a vital step towards making the real gains aid … technical assistance to project preparation, it can help to provide the public goods that resonate most with Japan's vision of …
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Agriculture and trade opportunities for Tanzania : past volatility and future climate change
Ahmed, Syud Amer; Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Hertel, Thomas W.; … - 2011
Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615615
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Indonesian industrialization : a latecomer adjusting to crises
Aswicahyono, Haryo H.; Hill, Hal; Narjoko, Dionisius - 2011
This paper examines Indonesia's industrialization performance and policies, including its latecomer status, its generally rapid growth since the mid-1960s, its pronounced policy and performance episodes, and its ambivalent embrace of globalization. Particular attention is accorded to the deep...
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Is feed-in-tariff policy effective for increasing deployment of renewable energy in Indonesia?
Yuliani, Dewi - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016
To accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies and to secure the electricity supply, the Government of Indonesia has issued several feed-in-tariff regulations for various renewable energy sources, which were previously predominated by pilot projects using government funding. The...
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The political economy of energy transitions and thermal energy poverty : comparing the residential LPG sectors in Indonesia and South Africa
Kruger, Johannes; Tait, Louise; Groot, Jiska de - Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis - 2016
Indonesia and South Africa are both trying address energy poverty through subsidized energy provision. South Africa has implemented one of the largest electrification programmes in the world, and 80 per cent of the population now have access to the national grid. But this alone is unlikely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477370
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Maternal employment and children's outcomes : evidence from Indonesia
Dervisevic, Ervin; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Perova, Elizaveta - 2021
Is maternal employment beneficial or harmful for child development? Maternal employment generates income, which is needed to provide core inputs for children's health and education. However, maternal employment comes at the cost of time spent with children, which is also a critical input into...
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Inequality and structural transformation in the changing nature of work : the case of Indonesia
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Halim, Putri Riswani - 2021
This paper analyses the labour market dynamics in Indonesia from 2001 to 2015 and explores the role of the changing nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find evidence of a disproportionate increase in the returns to...
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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2021
We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic improvements of such outcomes at different points of the...
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Whose intergenerational mobility? : a new set of estimates for Indonesia by gender, geography, and generation
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2022
Various scholars have estimated levels of intergenerational mobility in OECD countries. Fewer estimates are available for developing countries, where mobility arguably matters more due to starker differences in living standards. This paper presents new estimates of mobility for a developing...
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