Latest Publications

December, 2010 | Asep Suryahadi, Sudarno Sumarto
The present chapter focuses on changes in real household consumption expenditures, as they reflect actual changes in living standards and form a measurable proxy for income changes due to the crisis.
December, 2010 | The SMERU Research Institute
November, 2010 | Naomi Hossain, Rizki Fillaili, Grace Lubaale
This article outlines three reasons to believe that the impacts are likely to have been severe for those in poverty.
November, 2010 | Muhammad Syukri, Sirojuddin Arif, Meuthia Rosfadhila, Widjajanti Isdijoso
Based on a qualitative study in four villages in Indonesia, this article explores how the conditional cash transfer (CCT) recipient households use the CCT funds.
October, 2010 | Emmanuel Skoufias, Asep Suryahadi
This article uses repeated cross-sectional data for the years 1986 to 1998 to examine how the median and spread in the distribution of wages among workers of different age and gender were affected by the economic growth and contraction in output during this period.