The Ministry of Trade (MoT) of Republic of Indonesia has requested the support of the World Bank in devising new and …

Relying on firm-level data from Statistik Industri this note analyzes the evolution of productivity dynamics of … Indonesian firms over the past 20 years (1990-2009). Economy-wide and sectoral productivity changes are decomposed into their two … main components: changes due to the evolution of average productivity and changes due to 'allocative efficiency'. This …

characteristics of a growth-enhancing business climate. In Indonesia, some of these elements are missing, which challenges firms …' operations. This note discusses the main constraints that Indonesia's manufacturing firms face, shows that these differ depending … on the nature of the firm and examines the effect of these constraints on firms' productivity and decisions to invest. It …

manufacturing growth is critical for Indonesia's development (i) to support the creation of higher-productivity jobs, (ii) to …Is Indonesia's manufacturing sector still relevant for growth and development? As a result of the last boom in global … commodity prices between 2003 and 2008, resources in Indonesia shifted towards commodities and resource-based manufacturing as …

heterogeneity among a sample of small urban retail shops in Indonesia, and experimentally tests whether learning about the best …

developing economies-Indonesia and Mexico. It finds that unlike increases in electricity prices, which harm plants' performance …, fuel price hikes result in higher productivity and profits of manufacturing plants. The results of instrumental variable … estimation imply that a 10 percent increase in fuel prices would lead to a 3.3 percent increase in total factor productivity for …