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  Social security reform and economic modeling capacity building in Indonesia

  Asian Development Bank, 2016

  Since 1999, economic growth and the rise of the services sector in urban areas have contributed to reducing poverty in Indonesia. While official poverty is relatively low at 12% (30 million persons), an additional 27% of the population (65 million persons) live just above the poverty line and small shocks can drive them back into poverty.
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  Toward a dynamic and efficient economy: mid-term policy agenda for Indonesia in finance, energy and investment

  Korea Development Institute, 2011

  2010 South Korean Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) Indonesia project is the fourth KSP program for Indonesia, undertaken in the name of “Toward a Dynamic and Efficient Economy: Mid-Term Policy Agenda for Indonesia in Finance, Energy and Investment.” 
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  Developing policy solutions for four high policy priority areas of the Indonesian government

  Korea Development Institute, 2010

  For Indonesia, the South Korean Knowledge Sharing Program was initially launched when the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia sent a written Demand Survey Form concerning its areas of interests for the KSP in January, 2009.
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  Targeting the poor: evidence from a field experiment in Indonesia

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2014

  Governments of developing countries often lack verifiable income information for poor people and communities. This makes targeting for social programmes a challenge.
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  Evaluating Indonesia’s Unconditional Cash Transfer Programme, 2005‒2006

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2012

  Indonesia implemented an unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programme from October 2005 to September 2006, with the aim of helping poor households overcome the adverse effects of a massive reduction in fuel subsidies in October 2005.
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  Economic class and labour market inclusion: poor and middle class workers in developing Asia and the Pacific

  International Labour Organization, 2013

  Using an absolute definition of poverty and the middle class, this paper provides some important insights into the profiles of the poor, near poor and middle class workforce in developing Asia and the Pacific, with a special focus on Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Viet Nam. Observations and recommendations:
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  The poverty and welfare impacts of climate change quantifying the effects, identifying the adaptation strategies

  World Bank, 2012

  Although poverty remains widespread in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, substantial progress has been made especially in the past three decades. Nevertheless, this report stresses that climate change is likely to reduce agricultural productivity, which will directly affect poor people's livelihood assets including health, access to water and other natural resources, homes and infrastructure.
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  Civil Service and Military Pension Reforms in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore

  2011

  The 2008 Global Crisis and demographic trends in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore has increased the urgency of reforming their pension systems for enhancing financial, fiscal, and economic sustainability over a long period, and mitigating possible adverse economic impacts.
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  Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

  CARE International, 2011

  This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation of peat swamp forest by mitigating the frequency and severity of fire, protecting existing peat land and rewetting and r
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  An institutional analysis of biofuel policies and their social implications: lessons from Brazil, India and Indonesia

  United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2012

  This paper examines how developing countries have attempted to promote rural development through biofuel production, what social outcomes those strategies have created and what lessons can be learned. This is done by comparing the contexts of Brazil, India and Indonesia; three countries with important agricultural sectors that have put large-scale biofuel programmes in place.

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