The Distributional Impacts Of Indonesia S Financial Crisis On Household Welfare

Author : Jed Friedman,James Alan Levinsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822029549383

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The Distributional Impacts of Indonesia's Financial Crisis on Household Welfare by Jed Friedman,James Alan Levinsohn Pdf

Analyzing the distributional impacts of economic crises is important and, unfortunately, an ever more pressing need. If policymakers are to intervene to help those most adversely impacted, then policymakers need to identify those who have been most harmed and the magnitude of that harm. Furthermore, policy responses to economic crises typically must be timely. In this paper, we develop a simple methodology to fill the order and we've applied our methodology to analyze the impact of the Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating variation for Indonesian households following the 1997 Asian currency crisis and then explore the results with flexible non-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst. The ability of poor rural households to produce food mitigated the worst consequences of the high inflation. The distributional consequences are the same whether we allow households to substitute towards relatively cheaper goods or not. However the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories. Additionally, households with young children may have suffered disproportionately adverse effects.

Author : Ambar Narayan,Carolina Sanchez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389546

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Knowing When You Do Not Know by Ambar Narayan,Carolina Sanchez Pdf

Microeconomic shocks are rarely predictable and their employment, poverty and distributional impacts are difficult to track because real-time data are typically not available. However, measuring these impacts is for designing effective and timely policy response.

Author : jed friedman and james levinsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:b205503x:0001.001

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the distributional impacts of indonesia's financial crisis on household welfare: a rapid response methodology by jed friedman and james levinsohn Pdf

Author : Luiz A. Pereira da Silva,Fran ois Bourguignon,Maurizio Bussolo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821372692

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The Impact of MacroEconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution by Luiz A. Pereira da Silva,Fran ois Bourguignon,Maurizio Bussolo Pdf

A companion to the bestseller, The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution, this title deals with theoretical challenges and cutting-edge macro-micro linkage models. The authors compare the predictive and analytical power of various macro-micro linkage techniques using the traditional RHG approach as a benchmark to evaluate standard policies, such as a typical stabilization package and a typical structural reform policy.

Author : Michael P. Dooley,Jeffrey A. Frankel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226155425

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Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets by Michael P. Dooley,Jeffrey A. Frankel Pdf

The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy debates on these issues-consider how best to reduce the frequency and cost of such crises. The contributions here explore the management process from the beginning of a crisis to the long-term effects of the techniques used to minimize it. The first three chapters focus on the earliest responses and the immediate defense of a currency under attack, exploring whether unnecessary damage to economies can be avoided by adopting the right response within the first few days of a financial crisis. Next, contributors examine the adjustment programs that follow, considering how to design these programs so that they shorten the recovery phase, encourage economic growth, and minimize the probability of future difficulties. Finally, the last four papers analyze the actual effects of adjustment programs, asking whether they accomplish what they are designed to do-and whether, as many critics assert, they impose disproportionate costs on the poorest members of society. Recent high-profile currency crises have proven not only how harmful they can be to neighboring economies and trading partners, but also how important policy responses can be in determining their duration and severity. Economists and policymakers will welcome the insightful evaluations in this important volume, and those of its companion, Sebastian Edwards and Jeffrey A. Frankel's Preventing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets.

Author : Raghbendra Jha,Raghav Gaiha,Anil B. Deolalikar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781004296

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Handbook on Food by Raghbendra Jha,Raghav Gaiha,Anil B. Deolalikar Pdf

'This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health, production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.' --Steven Block, Tufts University, US. 'This excellent volume offers a compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several provocative original contributions from other fields. The book draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia, offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food around the world.' --William A. Masters, Tufts University, US. The global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large population is a pressing economic, moral and even security challenge and requires research (and action) from a multi-disciplinary perspective. This book provides the first such integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet diversification and urbanization in developing countries and climate change. It examines key topics such as: the impact of prosperity on food demand, the role of international trade in addressing food insecurity, the challenge posed by greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land degradation, the implication on labor markets of severe under-nutrition, viability of small scale farms, strategies to augment food availability. The Handbook on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on development economics, particularly those concentrating on agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as well as nutrition.

Author : Arup Banerji,David Newhouse,Pierella Paci,David Robalino
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821394625

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Working through the Crisis by Arup Banerji,David Newhouse,Pierella Paci,David Robalino Pdf

This book reviews the experience of workers in developing countries during the global financial crisis of 2009, asseses the recovery, and provides new evidence on the policy response that countries undertook in response to the crisis.

Author : Shigeru Thomas Otsubo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317417149

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Globalization and Development Volume I by Shigeru Thomas Otsubo Pdf

1. The book is the result of a well-coordinated four-year international joint research that had studied 7 countries such as Bhutan, China, Ghana etc.and looks at the diversified development paradigms and paths under globalization and challenges 2. This book will be a single repository on the evolution of globalization and development paradigms with a balanced stock of diversified concepts, ideologies and rigorous empirics

Author : Frederic S. Mishkin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400829446

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The Next Great Globalization by Frederic S. Mishkin Pdf

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far. But in The Next Great Globalization, eminent economist Frederic Mishkin argues the opposite: that financial globalization today is essential for poor nations to become rich. Mishkin argues that an effectively managed financial globalization promises benefits on the scale of the hugely successful trade and information globalizations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This financial revolution can lift developing nations out of squalor and increase the wealth and stability of emerging and industrialized nations alike. By presenting an unprecedented picture of the potential benefits of financial globalization, and by showing in clear and hard-headed terms how these gains can be realized, Mishkin provides a hopeful vision of the next phase of globalization. Mishkin draws on historical examples to caution that mismanagement of financial globalization, often aided and abetted by rich elites, can wreak havoc in developing countries, but he uses these examples to demonstrate how better policies can help poor nations to open up their economies to the benefits of global investment. According to Mishkin, the international community must provide incentives for developing countries to establish effective property rights, banking regulations, accounting practices, and corporate governance--the institutions necessary to attract and manage global investment. And the West must be a partner in integrating the financial systems of rich and poor countries--to the benefit of both. The Next Great Globalization makes the case that finance will be a driving force in the twenty-first-century economy, and demonstrates how this force can and should be shaped to the benefit of all, especially the disadvantaged nations most in need of growth and prosperity.

Author : Jotham Momba
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Zambia
ISBN : 9781443864503

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Zambia Social Science Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2011) by Jotham Momba Pdf

This issue of the Zambia Social Science Journal looks at a number of pressing issues focusing on different parts of the Southern African sub-region. In ""Estimating the Impact of Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises on Zambian Households, "" Neil McCulloch and Amit Grover combine national household survey data from Zambia in 2006 with detailed, spatially disaggregated price data, to simulate the likely welfare impacts of the price changes arising from the food, fuel, and financial crises between 200 ...

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821361813

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Analyzing the Distributional Impact of Reforms: A practitioner's guide to trade, monetary and exchange rate policy, utility provision, agricultural markets, land policy, and education by World Bank Pdf

This publication is a practitioner's guide for analyzing the distributional impact of reforms to trade, monetary and exchange rate policy, utility provision, agricultural markets, land policy and education. These six areas of policy reform are the ones most likely to have an impact on distribution and poverty. Such analysis helps in policy formulation and development and for implementing poverty reduction strategies in developing countries. Each chapter in this volume provides an overview and guidance on the specific issues arising in the analysis of the distributional impacts of policy and institutional reforms in selected sectors.

Author : Hal Hill
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814459853

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Regional Dynamics in a Decentralized Indonesia by Hal Hill Pdf

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. In 2001 it embarked on a "big bang" decentralization involving a major transfer of administrative, political and financial authority to its districts, now numbering more than 500. Together with the rapid transition from authoritarian to democratic rule in the late 1990s, this initiative has transformed the country's political, social and business life. While national government is the major area of contestation, power has shifted irreversibly away from the centre. How this significantly increased regional autonomy works will have a crucial bearing on the future of the Indonesian nation-state. This volume features contributions by over 40 writers with deep expertise on Indonesia. The book provides a timely, comprehensive and analytical assessment of the country's regional development dynamics in the post-decentralization environment. It explores historical, political and development patterns at the regional level; the relationship between decentralization and governance; local-level perspectives; migration, cities and connectivity; and the challenges confronting the peripheral regions of Aceh and Papua.

Author : Takahiro Akita and Sachiko Miyata
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Urbanization, Educational Expansion, and Expenditures Inequality in Indonesia in 1996, 1999 and 2002 by Takahiro Akita and Sachiko Miyata Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Rice
ISBN : 9789712201844

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Rice Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199278633

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Spatial Inequality and Development by Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables Pdf

"This is an introduction to spatial and regional inequality. Drawing on data from 25 countries from around the world, it examines the questions: What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it?"--Provided by publisher.