Our Expertise
The overall purpose of this research project is to document the experience of the poor in facing food price volatility, in a form that enables common, policy-relevant insights into how food price volatility plays out in developing countries.
Rising food prices, increasing urbanisation, rising numbers of working women and reduced time for care has led to more children eating more pre-prepared and instant food in Indonesia. Besides the durability of much packaged food, its price is also less volatile and often cheaper than fresh food.
Jaringan Peduli Anak Indonesia (JPAI) and the SMERU Research Institute held a public discussion that is aimed at facilitating the effort toward fostering cross-sectoral collaboration in order to improve and strengthen child protection system in Indonesia.
The Indonesia Project of the Australian National University (ANU), in collaboration with The SMERU Research Institute, organized The 4th Indonesian Development Research Network (IDRN) Workshop on 17–18 May 2016 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. It was attended by approximately 40 researchers from various institutes in Indonesia and Australia.
We use a large-scale unconditional cash transfer program in Indonesia to investigate the importance of timing in shaping household consumption responses to fiscal interventions. Timely receipt of transfers yields no expenditure change relative to non-recipients. However, delayed receipt reduces expenditures by 7.5 percentage points. Ignoring heterogeneous timing leads to sizable underestimates of expenditure impacts.
