Background: Indonesia ranks fifth in terms of the number of stunted children and there has been little change in the stunting prevalence in the last decade.
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Over the past two decades Indonesia has undergone a major economic transformation including reducing the poverty rate by more than half to a current level of about 10% and becoming the 10th largest economy in the world.
Investments in adolescent health have the potential to influence the future course of global health by improving the health and nutritional status of adolescents themselves, their life trajectories in adulthood, and the lives of their future child
Social inclusion is defined by the World Bank Group as the process of improving the terms of individuals and groups to take part in society, and the process of improving the ability, opportunity, and dignity of those disadvantaged based on their i
Human capital and structural transformation quasi-experimental evidence from Indonesia
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the long-term causal effect of increases in human capital on participation in agriculture.
This book addresses the thorny and fascinating question of how food and voucher programs, despite theory and evidence generally favoring cash, remain relevant, have evolved, and, in most circumstances, have improved over time.
The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention co
Regional drivers of malnutrition in Indonesia
Positive returns
Are schooling and roads complementary?
Prenatal seasonality, child growth, and schooling investments
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. There is seasonality in birth weight: this measure is significantly higher during the dry season than during the rainy season.
Are schooling and roads complementary?
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions and water quality on child growth using recent data from Indonesia.