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Measuring the effects of commodity price shocks on Asian economies
Inoue, Tomoo; Okimoto, Tatsuyoshi - 2017
Commodity prices have become volatile over the past 2 decades, and their recent sharp decline has decreased the consumer price index inflation rates for most economies. While many Asian economies have benefited from low international oil and food prices, commodity exporters have suffered. Thus,...
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Ultra-low interest rates, overinvestment, and growth in emerging East Asia
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
expansion counteracts a crisis triggered by a preceding overinvestment boom, it paralyzes growth in the long term, as Japan …
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Effective development aid : eelectivity, proliferation and fragmentation, and the growth impact of development assistance
Kihara, Takashi - 2012
perspective, some major donors including Japan have been as selective in delivering their aid as some countries well-known for … their selective aid delivery, such as Denmark. Japan has provided higher aid for the countries with better policy and … major donors in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe, including Japan, has proliferated less than the aid programs of most other …
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Urbanization and inequality in hypertension diagnosis and medication in Indonesia
Helble, Matthias; Aizawa, Toshiaki - 2016
Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still not well understood. In this paper, we present new empirical evidence on the differences in the utilization of health care services between rural and urban areas as well as for...
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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia
Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016
The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...
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Socioeconomic inequity in excessive weight in Indonesia
Aizawa, Toshiaki; Helble, Matthias - 2016
Exploiting the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper studies the transition of socioeconomic related disparity of excess weight, including overweight and obesity, from 1993 to 2014. First, we show that the proportions of overweight and obese people in Indonesia increased rapidly during the...
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The impact of government support on the performance of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises
Nugroho, Hendro - 2019
This study analyzes the impact of government support on the financial performance of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises (SOEs). I employ the ordinary least square (OLS) method with firm and year fixed effects in addition to clustered standard errors. The findings show that government support...
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Payment system innovations and financial intermediation : the case of Indonesia
Lubis, Alexander; Alexiou, Constantinos; Nellis, Joseph G. - 2019
This paper explores the relationship between innovations in payment systems and financial intermediation. By focusing on excess reserves and the currency demand, we provide evidence on the extant transmission mechanism. In this direction, we applied the generalized method of moments (GMM) and...
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Land acquisition in indonesia and law no. 2 of 2012
Guild, James - 2019
This paper is a qualitative case study of two land acquisition cases highlighting the empirical effect of legal reforms on land use policy over time in Indonesia. Under the Suharto regime, land acquisition in the public interest was often coercive, with the government determining one-sided...
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The role of credit guarantee schemes for financing MSMEs : evidence from rural and urban areas in Indonesia
Wardhono, Adhitya; Modjo, Mohamad Ikhsan; Utami, Eka Wahyu - 2019
Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) play a significant role in the Indonesian economy, however most MSMEs have difficulties in accessing finance. The Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) is a popular program for guaranteeing bank lending to MSMEs by the government. The objective of this...
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