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    Governance and poverty reduction: evidence from newly decentralized Indonesia

    Support for Decentralisation Measures, Indonesia / Proyek Pendukung Pemantapan Penataan Desentralisasi (P4D), 2004
    This study focuses on the impact of bad governance on the poor and those people who are most vulnerable to the impact of bad governance.By assembling scattered anecdotal evidence on how past and current practices of bad governance in Indonesia have hurt the poor, the study shows that the adverse impact of bad governance on the poor is real, systematically affects many people, and undermines the
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    Economic growth and poverty reduction: do data from Indonesia support the positive correlation hypothesis?

    Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004
    Faced with poverty and economic stagnation caused by bad macroeconomic management and domestic political instability, the government of Indonesia adopted import substitution strategies to develop the capacity of domestic industries in 1969.
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    Institutionalising participation and people-centred processes in natural resource management: research and publications highlights

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2004
    This report presents background and rationale for the IIED's action research on institutionalising participatory approaches and people centred processes in natural resource management.
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    The impact of foreign direct investment on poverty reduction: a survey of literature and a temporary finding from Indonesia

    Center for Industrial Economic Studies, Faculty of Economics, University of Trisakti, Indonesia, 2004
    This study focuses on the experience of Indonesia with Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and all the economic reforms that have been undertaken to attract such investment.
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    Poverty targeting in Indonesia: programs, problems and lessons learned

    Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia, 2004
    The significant rise in poverty levels in Indonesia following the economic crisis in 1997 led to the implementation of several targeted poverty alleviation programs. How effective were these programs at mitigating the impact of the crisis on the poor? This paper assesses some key poverty alleviation programs, specifically targeted to the poor.
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    Learning the lessons on PSIA: a synthesis of experience from the DFID Pilot Studies

    PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003
    Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) aims to improve policy formation in low-income countries and is hailed as a key element both of national PRS processes, and in the design of IMF and World Bank lending programmes. PSIA is an approach for assessing the effects of policy change on the well being of different groups in society.
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    The road to pro-poor growth: the Indonesian experience in regional perspective

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2004
    In response to the increased emphasis placed by donors on 'pro-poor growth', this paper aims to examine it in regional perspective, and to draw particular policy lessons for Indonesia. It defines the primary component of pro-poor growth as connecting the poor to rapid economic growth so there is a concomitant rapid reduction in poverty.
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    25 years of essential medicines progress

    Essential Drugs and Medicine Policy, WHO, 2003
    The historic first meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on the Selection of Essential Drugs took place in Geneva in 1977. Today, more than 150 countries have adopted the concept and developed their own national lists of essential medicines.This special issue of the Essential Drugs Monitor, produced by the WHO, celebrates 25 years of the essential medicines concept.
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    The macroeconomics of poverty reduction: initial findings of the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Programme

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    This paper presents some initial findings from the drafts of eight case studies (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Vietnam).
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    Urban poverty and social safety net in Indonesia

    SilverPlatter Information, 2003
    What are the characteristics of urban poverty in Indonesia, and what impacts are existing government policies having? This study attempts to examine urban poverty levels, the condition under which the urban poor in Indonesia live and what their main survival strategies are, particularly concentrating on the economic crisis in 1997/98.

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