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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms

Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008

and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme … analysis of other firms, e.g. Islamic banks in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies Malmquist data …

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Ownership Versus Environment: Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?

Bartel, Ann P.; Harrison, Ann E. - 1999

firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to agency … large, independent effects on efficiency: in 1993, a full privatization is estimated to increase plant-level total factor … productivity by 23 percentage points. Even without privatization, however, eliminating soft loans could raise total factor …

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Asian economic and financial crises: causes, ramifications and lessons

Das, Dilip K - 1999

Financial globalisation during the 1990s impinged upon world savings and investment flows, macroeconomic developments, challenges confronting policy makers, international investors and financial market regulators. Experiences of the last two decades reveal that international financial markets...

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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania

Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009

This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....

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Optimum Level and Welfare Effects of Export Taxes for Cocoa Beans in Indonesia: A Partial Equilibrium Approach

Permani, Risti; Vanzetti, David; Setyoko, Nur Rakhman - 2011

Aiming to support downstream processing, the Indonesian government announced an export tax in May 2010. Using a partial equilibrium approach, this paper therefore attempts to analyse: (i) whether the Indonesian government has imposed optimal taxes on cocoa beans; (ii) the impacts of cocoa export...

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Trade and employment linkages in Indonesian Agriculture

Vanzetti, David; Oktaviani, Rina - 2011

Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific sectors. The agricultural sector has characteristics that make it different from industrial or service sectors. These are an informal labour force, low productivity, relative...

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The Choice of Land Tenure Contracts in the Presence of Transaction Costs in Rice Farming in West Java, Indonesia.

Jamal, Erizal; Mardiharini, Maesti - 2009

, Indonesia. Specifically, it examined the transaction costs associated with land tenure contracts, the land tenure contract … land tenure arrangement in West Java, Indonesia. Thus it does not support the Marshallian view of sharecropping as an …

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Spatial Networks, Labor Supply and Income Dynamics: Evidence from Indonesian Villages

Yamauchi, Futoshi; Muto, Megumi; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2009

supply, combining household panel data and village census in Indonesia. Empirical results show that the impacts of the …

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Indonesian agricultural trade policy at the crossroads

Oktaviani, Rina; Rakjman Setyoko, Nur; Vanzetti, David - 2010

Following the global spike in food prices in 2008, there is renewed interest in Indonesia in self-sufficiency as a …

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The costs of stopping deforestation in PNG and Indonesia

Hunt, Colin - 2010

Even though deforestation in tropical developing countries releases large quantities of greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol does not include mechanisms for forest conservation. Nevertheless, deforestation and forest degradation has now taken centre-stage as the developed countries, having...

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