Micro finance has been widely recognized to be able to play a greater role in tackling the great challenges in Indonesia’s aspiration toward poverty alleviation and reducing inequality. However, Although Indonesia has been a global leader in microfinance outreach and…
Economic status of one individual in a society is not only a product of the effort or talent of that particular individual alone. Philosopher Professor John Roemer of Yale University in his theory of distributive justice emphasizes that inequality in…
Under the leadership of CEDS and with the support of the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), capacity building program in the application of economic modeling in environmental and natural resource management for Southeast Asian researchers continues.
The East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE) is holding its 3rd congress in Huangshan, Anhui Province, China, on February 20-22, 2013. The congress is hosted by the School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China,…
One of the biggest challenges in Indonesian economic development is to maintain rapid economic growth and at the same time reducing inter-regional economic disparity.
CEDS starts the new year of 2013 by publishing 5 research papers on its series, Working Papers in Economics and Development Studies (WOPEDS). These five research papers analyze various aspect of poverty in Indonesia including various regulation and policies that…
After 12 years since the establishment of the commission for the supervision of business competition (KPPU), a large number of policy recommendations related to specific regulations and policies which impede competition have been issued.
Public debates over the success and failures of development have been generally based on some limited types of metrics known to the general public and reported over a broad range of disaggregation.
Debat publik mengenai keberhasilan pembangunan sering mengkerucut pada silang pendapat antara klaim pemerintah tentang berhasilnya pembangunan di satu sisi, dan keraguan bahkan penolakan masyarakat karena berbedanya fakta yang terjadi di lapangan di sisi lain.
Setelah pendaftaran gelombang pertama Young Researchers Program (YRP) 2012 dengan topik “kredit mikro dan ekonomi lokal” mengundang cukup banyak peminat, kini dibuka kembali pendaftaran gelombang kedua untuk topik “pendidikan tinggi dan kesejahteraan rakyat di Indonesia”.
