This paper investigates the deepening digital divide and widening spatial gaps in Indonesia over half a decade. Data come from the Indonesian national socio-economic survey (Susenas) 2005-2009, and comprise 1.4 million households living in 292 districts. Multilevel analysis is used to account...

Social capital has been shown to be positively associated with a range of health outcomes, yet few studies have explored the association between mothers' social capital and child health. We examine the relationship between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community...

Community and facility studies in developing countries have generally demonstrated an inverse relationship between poverty and mental health. However, recent population-based studies contradict this. In India and Indonesia the poor and non-poor show no difference in mental health. We revisit the...

This paper seeks to make transparent the mutually reinforcing relationships between global civil society, democracy and network society, which are often implicit in extant theories. The concept of a 'global civil society' cannot be separated from the promotion of democracy. Global civil society...

That poverty and mental health are negatively associated in developing countries is well known among epidemiologists. Whether the relationship is causal or associational, however, remains an open question. This paper aims to estimate the causal effect of poverty on mental health by exploiting a...

Social capital has been shown to be positively associated with a range of health outcomes, yet few studies have explored the association between mother's social capital and children's health. This study examines the relation between mothers' access to social capital (via participation in...

The effect of decentralisation reform on citizen happiness in the context of a developing country remains under-investigated. We study this effect by examining the experience of Indonesia. Data comes from the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007 which comprises face-to-face interviews with the...