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exploits cross-sectional and time variation in the application of the Islamic inheritance exclusion rule in Indonesia: between …
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A central policy of the Government of Indonesia's strategy for enhancing its country's economic and social development …. Despite the decentralization of financial responsibility and authority to relatively autonomous local level governments …, 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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After the tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia, the recovery of fishing was limited while non-fishing sectors temporarily …
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Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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bank in Indonesia, the paper finds that moral appeals strongly increase credit card repayments. In this setting, all of the …
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This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...
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