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policies on womenʼs entrepreneurship, the uptake of business development services, and financing programs for MSMEs …
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Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …-2007 we analyze the links between firm survival and financial development. We find that traditionally used measures of … financial development play an important role in influencing firm survival. When stock markets become larger or more liquid firms …
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Objective – Explore the data and information on strategic orientation and absorptive capability on value creation of courier service industry in Indonesia.Methodology/Technique – The nature of this research is descriptive and verification. The unit of analysis is the courier service...
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Bride price customs are widespread in many developing countries. While the economic literature has widely investigated the implications of such transfers on women's welfare, little is known about their consequences on men's premarital behavior. In this paper, we exploit a quasi-natural...
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- particularly pertinent given the region’s large informal sector and rapid population ageing. We first document stylized facts about … of non-contributory social pensions to informal 65+). First, abstracting from population ageing, we show that: (i) the …
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Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond & Mazumder (2009), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this...
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Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond & Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian cross-sectional data, I show...
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Slower growth and higher inflation can worsen poverty. By implication, maintaining macroeconomic stability is necessary to reduce poverty. When a typical aggregate demand (AD) policy for stabilization is not effective, however, its impact on poverty could be devastating as incomes of the poor...
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Slower growth and higher inflation can worsen poverty. By implication, maintaining macroeconomic stability is necessary to reduce poverty. When a typical aggregate demand (AD) policy for stabilization is not effective, however, its impact on poverty could be devastating as incomes of the poor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746943
Indonesia is one of the emerging markets for the development of the Islamic finance securitization i.e. sukuk. Beyond …
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