, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation …We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization …

. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …

goods and services (indirect taxes) and health outcomes, which they hypothesise arises from the impact such taxes have on … the real incomes of the poor. This paper revisits the relationship between tax types and health outcomes using the ICTD … revenue are associated with increased public health expenditure; we find some weak evidence that greater reliance on direct …

higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

paper examines how the temporary migration of parents for the sole purpose of work affects the health outcomes of children … health used, height-for-age, serves as a proxy for stunting. The evidence suggests that whether parental migration is … beneficial or deleterious to child health depends on which parent moved. In particular, migration of the mother has an adverse …

Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia's development prospects. This pessimism … Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the …

poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

evaluate the dynamics of the poverty impact of growth in Indonesia, by comparing the 1993-2000, 2000-07, and 2007-14 growth …The canonical approach to analysing the poverty impact of growth is based on the comparison of poverty before and after … growth. Measurement tools that endorse this approach fail to capture the different experiences of poverty dynamics in the …