Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning
This note is an update on the social impacts of the Indonesian crisis. In this note we focus exclusively on changes in real household consumption expenditures, as these reflect both actual changes in people's current living standards, and can also serve as a measurable proxy for income changes due to the crisis.
In this study we provide some preliminary evidence about the impact of the economic crisis on household living standards, measured by real consumption expenditures per capita, and the distribution of living standards across households, measured by indices of inequality. Our study has two distinguishing characteristics worth highlighting right from the start.
In this paper we use repeated cross-sectional data from Indonesia for the years 1986 to 1998 to examine two inter-related questions.
The research team observed and recorded a significant part of the economic activities of the village community in Buyut, and especially those associated with the rattan industry The study set out to concentrate on the following three areas: to examine the impact of economic activities in other villages in the surrounding area on the economic life of Buyut; to assess the impact of non-farm economic pursuits on agricultural ac
The system of industrial relations in Indonesia is undergoing a transition from a heavily centralized and government-controlled system, to a more decentralized system where employers and employees negotiate the terms and conditions of employment at the enterprise level. However, many components are still influenced by the paternalistic central government practices of the past.
