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While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization often struggle with decisions about the essential components...
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A central policy of the Government of Indonesia's strategy for enhancing its country's economic and social development …, procurement reform in Indonesia is a centrally-driven effort. In this paper, we examine the extent to which procurement reform is …
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During the past decade, Indonesia has transformed itself from centralized governance to decentralized local governance … decentralized provincial-local expenditures, Indonesia implemented a new system of intergovernmental finance. This paper provides a …
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This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double difference estimator to: (i) measure impacts on the pattern of public spending and revenue generation at the district level; and (ii) investigate the heterogeneity of the impacts on public...
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begins with a review of the accomplishments and remaining nutrition challenges for Indonesia. It then turns to look at the … regional diversity in Indonesia's nutrition challenges and asks which type of nutrition programs are most cost-effective. The … steps Indonesia can take to further improve population nutrition and health. The annexes provide extensive data and analysis …
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Indonesia faces serious challenges in the number, cost, quality, and distribution of teachers. This paper examines the … Indonesia from 1965 to 1998, led to efforts to change this situation, but these have had little impact so far. The paper …
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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the … European Union, Indonesia, and the United States. When the authors aggregate across all products, most of the countries …
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Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged periods. The authors introduce types of theories of...
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A review of the history of the United States from its colonial origins shows how America's successful development has always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and subnational governments. The United States of America...
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