Ginting, Edimon
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Potential Use of the Life Satisfaction Approach to Value Nonmarket Goods and ServicesThis paper explains the life satisfaction approach to economic analysis and illustrates it with an example of flooding in the Philippines.
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Improving Indonesia's Domestic Connectivity: An Inter-regional CGE AnalysisIndonesia's economic growth is slowed by poor transport infrastructure. This paper provides some rough estimates, generated using a regional CGE model (IndoTERM), of the possible benefits to Indonesia of reducing transport costs.
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Economy-wide Impact of a More Efficient Tanjung Priok PortIndonesia's growth has long been constrained by sluggish infrastructure development. An often-cited example is Tanjung Priok port, which serves more than two-thirds of the country's international trade.
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Summary of Indonesia's Economic AnalysisIndonesia’s economic growth averaged 5.8% over the last decade. However, GDP growth has decelerated gradually since peaking at 6.5% in 2011 to 5.1% in 2014, its slowest since 2009.
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Preparing for El Niño: Policy OptionsScientists are forecasting that there may be a severe El Niño weather event lasting through mid-2016. For Indonesia, El Niño events are associated with prolonged drought, with adverse effects on food and cash crop production.