The economics of happiness is an interesting way to provide broader concept of wealth. It is able to provide insight on relative utility that is not only depending by income as mediated by individual choices or preferences within monetary budget constraint but also non monetary factors. Recent...

The economics of happiness is an interesting way to provide broader concept of wealth. It is able to provide insight on relative utility that is not only depending by income as mediated by individual choices or preferences within monetary budget constraint but also non monetary factors. Recent...

Utilizing the combined-form of PPP and UIP we estimate the cointegrating relations for ASEAN-5 economies. The study uses quarterly data over the period from 1980 to 2008. The findings reveal that exchange rate, interest rates and prices are cointegrated, implying that there is co-movement among...

This paper analysis growth and convergence on sugarcane industry in southeast Asia countries. Important questions in this paper are whether the growth of sugar cane in Southeast Asia a convergence or divergence over time and to what extent economic integration influences the development and...

Selama ini, aktifitas pembangunan yang terfokus pada pertumbuhan mengakibatkan dampak negatif dan meyebabkan penurunan kondisi ekologi dan deplesi sumber daya alam. Oleh karena itu, pengelolaan sumber daya alam nasional dan lingkungan di masa mendatang harus didasarkan pada aspek penting pada...

Health card program aims to protect the poor in Indonesia during the Asian economic crisis. Health cards were targeted and allocated exclusively to the poor that would provide free access to public health services. The impact of health card program to reproductive health services was rarely...

Microfinance is one of alternative strategy to reduce poverty. there are kind of thinking of different microfinance strategy for poverty reduction. therefore, this paper try to explore several suitable alternative strategy which can be implemented to develop microfinance in papua. two particular...

Many studies on growth impact on poverty reduction have been conducted in Indonesia using various economic sectors and regional data. However, none of those studies have incorporated on even test the presence of spatial effects. This study is conducted using spatial analysis method to measure...