While formal insurance is widespread in much of the developed world, households in lower-income countries continue to rely heavily on informal risk-sharing networks when faced with unexpected shocks.
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Patterns of regional agri-food trade in Asia
This paper analyzes the implication of economic structural change and dietary transformation on changing patterns of agri-food trade among 17 Asian development countries.
Intra-household resource allocation when food prices soar: Impacts on child growth in Indonesia
An unanticipated spike in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor with lasting consequences, but parents can protect the most vulnerable within the family by distributing scarce food to minimize adverse impacts.
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.
Long-term impacts of an unanticipated risk event: The 2007/08 food price crisis and child growth in Indonesia
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection.
Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Highlights from Indonesia
Differential export taxes along the oilseeds value chain: A partial equilibrium analysis
This research has been undertaken to understand the rationale for the implementation of decreasing export taxes along the value chain in middle-income countries, in particular in the oilseeds value chain.
Revisiting the palm oil boom in Southeast Asia: The role of fuel versus food demand drivers
In the last 30 years, palm oil production has known a ninefold increase, with almost all production growth concentrated in Malaysia and Indonesia.
The impact of global climate change on the Indonesian economy
Global climate change influences the economic performance of all countries, and Indonesia is no exception. Under climate change, Indonesia is predicted to experience temperature increases of approximately 0.8°C by 2030.
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.
Spatial networks, labor supply, and income dynamics
This paper uses household panel and village census data from Indonesia to examine the impact of spatial connectivity (road) development on household income growth and nonagricultural labor supply.
Impacts of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions and water quality on child growth using recent data from Indonesia.
This paper examines the recent decentralization of governance in Indonesia and its impact on local infrastructure provision.
Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan Social Forestry Program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia
This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry program in Indonesia, Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), based on analysis of a survey of 640 HKm and comparable non-HKm plots in the Sumberjaya watershed of southern Sumatra, and of the households
Urbanization, educational expansion, and expenditures inequality in Indonesia in 1996, 1999, and 2002
This paper considers urban-rural location and education as the main causes of expenditure inequality and attempts to examine inequality changes associated with urbanization and educational expansion in Indonesia from 1996 to 2002, using Indonesian
Spatial coordination in public good allocation
This paper examines dynamics in public good accessibility and cross-community inequality in Indonesia, using village-level panel data from 2000 to 2006 from their decentralized public-good allocation system.
Policy distortions in the segmented rice market
High production and export subsidies in developed countries and high protection in both developed and developing countries have distorted rice trade.
Market institutions
"This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on
Indonesian economy has experienced some major changes during the last three decades and transformed from a predominantly agricultural economy to one that relies more heavily on its non-agricultural sector.