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Searching with a thematic focus on Poverty in Indonesia

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    The IMF: wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine

    Oxfam, 1999
    Prepared as part of Oxfam International's Education Now campaign, this briefing paper evaluates the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering information, statistics, case studies and recommendations for change.
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    Poverty and social impact analysis Indonesia rice tariff

    PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003
    This study explores the poverty impacts of an increase in rice tariffs in Indonesia.
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    Experience of PRSs in Asia

    PRSP Monitoring and Synthesis Project, 2003
    This briefing note summarises some of the key issues underlying the Poverty Reduction Strategy process within some countries in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Vietnam).
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    Political Dimensions of Globalization and Equity in East Asia

    Global Development Network, 2003
    The paper examines the relationship between globalisation and equity in East Asia from a political perspective. Economic relations have replaced Cold War politics as the main determinant of state interaction in the region. Throughout Northeast and Southeast Asia, trade and investment liberalisation has been accepted as the key to accelerated integration into the regional economy.
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    Actual and de facto childlessness in East Java: a preliminary analysis

    Oxford Institute of Ageing, 2002
    The limitations of state provision in developing countries have meant that research on elderly welfare has more or less inevitably focussed on support available via family systems. The short answer to the question “What help exists for poor and frail elderly people?” presupposes a simple solution: their children.
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    Energy price increases in developing countries : case studies of Malaysia,Indonesia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Colombia and Turkey

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Six case studies show that raising energy prices to eliminate subsidies does not harm the poor, growth, inflation, or industrial competitiveness. And public revenues improve.When domestic energy prices in developing countries fall below opportunity costs, price increases are recommended to conserve fiscal revenue and to ensure efficient use of resources.
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    Budgetary institutions and expenditure outcomes : binding governments to fiscal performance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    How institutional arrangements affect incentives governing the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources and improve transparency and accountability binding key players to particular fiscal outcomes and making it costly for them to misbehave.Campos and Pradhan examine how institutional arrangements affect incentives that govern the size, allocation, and use of budgetary resources.
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    The consequences of doubling the minimum wage : the case of Indonesia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Results suggest that doubling Indonesia's minimum wage led to a 10 percent increase in average wages, a 2 percent decrease in wage employment, and a 5 percent decrease in investment.
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    Labor regulations and industrial relations in Indonesia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Personnel management and incentive systems help firms establish a comparative advantage. Pay scales and hiring, firing and promotion decisions are central to competitive strategy. Ideally, labor regulations should facilitate voluntary agreements between employers and workers, helping reduce transaction costs.Since the mid 1980s, deregulation has proceeded rapidly in Indonesia.
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    How important are labor markets to the welfare of the poor in Indonesia?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Because poverty mainly afflicts agricultural and self-employed households in Indonesia, the most direct ways that policy can help to reduce poverty are through improving the operation of product, land, and capital markets, particularly where the regulatory environment now works to reduce farm profitability or inhibit entry to productive enterprises by the poor.

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