Conceptually, the effect of child labor on human capital is ambiguous. On one hand, working can displace schooling. Even in the case where working and schooling go hand-in-hand, the negative effect of working can come through reducing time available for studying, playing, and sleeping.
The relationship of humans to technology and management is an ever-growing theme in today's world of ubiquitous mobile devices, constant Internet access, and omnipresent digital business tools. Fifty years ago Peter F. Drucker was already at the forefront of these questions, probing the ways in which management and technology struggle with the shared task of making us more productive. His think…
This study measures the relative role of poverty and scholastic ability on education attainment in developing countries, where a substantial portion of the population still live in poverty and poor people are markedly credit constrained. Different from most studies in developing countries, this paper uses a multiple-wave and long-spanning panel dataset that follows a cohort of children beginnin…
The composition of households frequently change due to births, deaths, divorces, marriages, the departure of children from home, and other compositional changes. Consequently, a large number of people undergo some fundamental change in household arrangements during relatively short periods of time.
The global financial crisis (GFC) that swept over the world in 2008/09 had an influence on the Indonesian economy. In an attempt to reduce the impact of the GFC, the government introduced a Fiscal Stimulus Program (FSP) in 2009 in order to encourage economic growth. The program consisted of two main elements, namely, tax cuts and increased government spending.
The movement of people from rural to urban areas, popularly known as urbanization, is a common phenomenon observed all over the world during a country’s process of development. The Harris-Todaro model has long been used to explain this phenomenon. In general, the prevalence of higher average incomes in urban areas has attracted large numbers of rural people to move to urban areas (Harris and …
The Violent Conflict in Indonesia Study (ViCIS) is a new the World Bank project aimed at plugging gaps in the literature and adding to popular knowledge on violent conflict in Indonesia. The study aims to help the Government of Indonesia and others to formulate programs and policies to promote peaceful development and effective violence prevention.
Khawatir dengna semakin bertambahnya jumlah pengangguran setiap tahun, maka pemerintah berupaya untuk menekan jumlah angka tersebut. diantaranya dengan melakukan koordinasi dengan berbagai kementerian dan lembaga untuk menciptakan lapangan pekerjaan
The mission of the National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction (TNP2K) is to coordinate poverty alleviation policies in Indonesia. As part of its tasks, TNP2K conducts and commissions research reports and studies with the objective of facilitating and informing evidence-based policy planning (http://www.tnp2k.go.id). This report is the result of the Corporate Social Responsibility …
Pemerintah telah memiliki Data Terpadu yang berisi daftar 40 persen rumah tangga dengan status kesejahteraan terbawah berdasarkan nama dan alamattinggal. Wakil Presiden Boediono minta agar semua program penanggulangan kemiskinan yang memiliki sasaran individu/keluarga/rumah tangga, didasarkan pada Basis Data Terpadu tersebut yang telah kita miliki itu. Hal ini akan sangat mengurangi kemubazira…