Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State Restructuring and Regional Convergence: A Review of Theories and Debates -- 3. Indonesia and Its Regional Development Since the 1980s: An Inheritance from the New Order Regime -- 4....

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Tax Holidays to Attract Foreign Direct Investment -- Introduction -- The First Experiment: Eliminating Tax Holidays -- Estimating the Costs of Incentives -- The Pressures for New Tax Holidays -- The Second Experiment: Discretionary...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures and Maps -- Preface -- 1 Making a Living in Turbulent Times: Livelihoods and Resource Allocation in Tana Toraja During Indonesia's Economic and Political Crises -- 2 Through Turbulent Times: Diversity, Vulnerability, and Resilience...

Indonesia, with over 240 million people and rich of natural resources and abundant human resources, is very attractive for investors operating in wide array of industries.Many reports on Human Resource Management (HRM) and the English journals have written about the developing countries in...

Using detailed trade and firm-level financial data, the authors demonstrate, for example, that while links between finance and competitiveness are strong, they are not uniform across sectors and countries. This book examines the link between finance and competitiveness at the macro and sectoral...

Key Features:First book of its kind to explain to lay persons, Muslims and non-Muslims, the mystique surrounding Islamic banking and financeDepicts clearly how the market has developed in South-East AsiaProvides a road map for Singapore to develop and strategize in the area of Islamic banking...

Regardless of the size of the domestic economy, there are ample reasons for firms to extend their markets beyond home shores. These include increasing sales, improving profits, diversifying risks, reaping economies of scale, matching the moves of competitors, enhancing competitiveness or...

For Indonesia, which is keen to accelerate its infrastructure development, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is seen as an opportunity to tap into China's huge financial resources and technological capability.There has however been no concrete BRI project agreed to between China and Indonesia so...

Volume 23B includes two chapters covering problems and implementations of solutions in e-services adoption processes in developing nations. These are exciting and useful chapters for executives and researchers seeking knowledge and theory of how to influence e-service adoptions in developing...

Cover -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- 1 Comparison of Estimates of Fossil Fuel Consumer Subsidies -- 2 Scenarios of Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies -- 3 Subsidy Savings and Reallocation to Households in the SAM Model -- 4 Key Projected Macroeconomic Impacts -- 5 Impacts on...