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In general, the aim of this study is to identify possible impacts of the Conditional Cash Transfer program (PKH) with Child Labor support component.
The SMERU Research Institute, in collaboration with the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), held a discussion on the topic of Building a Better IMF: Lessons from Independent Evaluations of IMF Performance. In this event, Dr. Charles Collyns and Dr. Prakash Loungani (IEO) presented how the IEO works and shared key findings from some of IEO recent evaluations.
This chapter’s contribution is the first effort to reveal the pattern of employment transformation using a long-term longitudinal survey, the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS).1 Utilizing this dataset, we have generated matrixes of employment transformation for a 17-year period.
Redistribution program in developing countries often "leak" because local officials do not implement programs as the central government intends. We study one approach to reducing leakage. In an experiment in over 550 villages, we test whether mailing cards with program information to targeted beneficiaries increase the subsidy they receive from a subsidized rice program.
On 26 January 2018, Athia Yumna (senior researcher) acted as a representative of the SMERU Research Institute to sign a memorandum of understanding on the launching of the Indonesian Bureau of Economic Research (IBER) at Universitas Indonesia.
