The quality of education in Indonesia has not improved even though poverty rate has fallen. As education accelerates economic growth and productivity, improvement in education, especially in early childhood education is a must. Not only determines macroeconomics indicators, but education also determines microeconomics indicators such as people’s income. As education needs tuition fee, family …
Government expenditure is one of the factors driving the economic growth of a region. During 2010 to 2017, realization of Banten government expenditure continued to increase from 11 trillion to 36 trillion. However, Banten's economic growth from 2011 to 2017 tended to slow down from 7.03 percent to 5.71 percent. This study aims to determine how the impact of government expenditure on Banten eco…
The realization of Social Sustainability is one of the important indicators of achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2030. The social aspect becomes an important indicator in measuring the achievement of sustainable development with a human approach as the subject. This study produces a composite index that will be used to compare social development between provinces in Indonesia. …
The stock markets are becoming an essential and inseparable part of the economies in many countries, including Indonesia. The fact that stock markets indices become one of the indicators to determine the healthiness of country economics showing the importance of the stock market in a country. Whenever the stock market experiences a substantial decline, there is reason to fear that a recession m…
As major developing countries have limited domestic saving to generate capital accumulation, capital inflow plays substantial role to provide external financing. Several landmark literatures provide an empirical evidence that capital inflow contributed to the acceleration of economic growth through technology transfer, enhanced innovation, and capital accumulation. This research examines the ro…
This study aims to examine the existence of the counterproductive effects of Rice For Poor (Raskin) program on labor supply. The impact evaluation is done by a combination of Difference-in-Difference and Propensity Score Matching methods. The estimation results have shown that Raskin has a significant impact on decreasing of households head working hours, especially on male. Based on these find…
With current geographical disparities, Indonesia’s ratio of general practitioners (GPs) to population is still lower than the WHO-recommended figure. The Center for Indonesia’s Strategic Initiatives (CISDI) initiated Pencerah Nusantara (PN), a team-based young health workers deployment program to rural areas to improve the distribution of human resources for health including GPs, nurses, mi…
Competitive strategy is required by every business unit to win the competition in the uncertain and turbulent business environment especially in manufacturing industry. Development and distribution new industrial estates located in Java and outside Java by the Indonesian government in an effort to win the global competition in the manufacturing industry. This study empirically investigates the …