The world leaders gathered at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (referred to as Rio+20) called for “adopting forward-looking macroeconomic policies that promote sustainable development and lead to sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth…” (para. 150). This is, in...

Focused around the greed and/or grievance theses, a large part of the economics of conflict literature concerns itself with civil war. This article provides socioeconomic perspectives on contemporary conflict in Indonesia. Three categories of violent conflict in the country are separatist...

This research was motivated by current constraints on macroeconomic policy-making in Indonesia. On the fiscal side, the government is burdened with debt and the pressure to maintain social expenditure. On the monetary side, there is a preoccupation with a lower inflation rate which conflicts...

Open-Economy Macroeconomics for Developing Countries focuses on fiscal, monetary and exchange rate issues of importance to less developed economies. The book argues that the dichotomy between the short-term macroeconomic stabilization goal and the long-term economic growth objective commonly...

It seems there is a pessimistic view about the need and effectiveness of industry policy in an era of unprecedented globalization. The discussion about industry policy has been mostly on the fiscal, credit, and tariff measures, which are generally designed to favor particular activities....

Monthly review of economic and labour market trends in the UK.GDP output slowed in 2008 quarter two compared with the previous quarter. Growth was driven by modest service sector output, offset by weaker total production growth. Manufacturing output contracted in the latest quarter following...

Monthly review of economic and labour market trends in the UK.GDP continued to grow robustly in 2006 quarter four, driven mainly by the services sector,with little contribution from manufacturing output. In quarter three however, it had beenbusiness and government investment which had...

Monthly review of economic and labour market trends in the UK.GDP output continued to grow fairly robustly in 2007 quarter four, similar to the rate in previous quarter. Growth continued to be driven by the service sector and offset by flat output expansion in the manufacturing sector. On the...

Monthly review of economic and labour market trends in the UK.Gross Domestic Product (GDP) output slowed in 2008 quarter two compared with theprevious quarter - driven by slowing and subdued service sector output, together with aweakening in total production growth. Manufacturing output...

Monthly review of economic and labour market trends in the UK.GDP growth continued to grow robustly in 2007 quarter four, although at a slightly slower pace than in quarter three. Growth continued to be driven by the service sector offset by lower manufacturing growth. On the expenditure side,...