Despite offering huge economic returns, implementing energy efficiency measures encounters widespread and systemic barriers. One solution is developing effective and scalable financing and implementation...
Type: BriefReport#: 129733Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Lukas,Aditya Alexander
Labor market dynamics have played a significant role in the social gains experienced recently across Latin America. Assessing the quality of employment, beyond the perspective of income, to include other...
Type: BriefReport#: 129760Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Brummund,Peter ;
Mann,Christopher Ryan ;
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
The Latin American Companies Circle is a unique initiative launched in May 2005 in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the recommendation of the Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable, a network of public officials,...
Type: BriefReport#: 178295Date: September 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
Women are not receiving equal benefits of the global development of oil, gas, and mineral resources, even as they shoulder a greater burden of the negative impacts. Not only are men consulted more than...
Grid connectivity in rural Lao PDR yields widespread benefits: substantial improvements in household income, spending, ownership of durable assets, and children's education. Policymakers should consider...
Type: BriefReport#: 129736Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Portale,Elisa
Low- and middle- income countries typically lack adequate systems for collecting road crash data. This limits their capacity to monitor, effectively advocate for, manage, and efficiently improve road safety....
Type: BriefReport#: 130119Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Krambeck,Holly ;
Job,Raymond Franklin Soames ;
Sultan,Sara
Innovative start-ups and SMEs in developing and transition countries often have good ideas, but may not have these ideas fine-tuned to the stage where they can attract outside funding. This is the case...
Type: BriefReport#: 130145Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Dautovic,Ernest ;
Mckenzie,David J.
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 31, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the Financial Services Authority (OJK) recorded the non-performing loan (NPL) of the banking industry...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 30, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the government is to revise the regulation on franchise business, specifically on the outlet rules...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 29, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has cumulatively approved USD 691.5 million in loans...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 28, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government has decided to increase the price floor of airplane tickets from 30 to 35 percent...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 27, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government is to maintain the zero export tariff for crude palm oil (CPO) as the reference...
The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.8 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen by 0.4 percent, 1.4 percent and...
This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 24, 2018 presents economic highlights: the financial services authority (OJK) has just issued a regulation on financial technology (fintech) covering...
This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 23, 2018 presents economic highlights: the government is planning to impose a multi-layered tax for plastic bags, starting in 2019; and the financial...
This report of Indonesia daily economic update for August 21, 2018 presents economic highlights: the Ministry of Finance signed a grant agreement with European Union (EU), aiming to improve Indonesia’s...
The Jakarta Composite Index rose 3.2 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen by 0.2 percent, 2.1 percent and...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 20, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The Ministry of Finance is preparing a ministrial regulation draft to regulate import income tax...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 16, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government, via Pertamina, plans to buy ready-to-sell production from all oil and gas contractors...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 15, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia (BI) Board of Governors agreed to raise the BI 7-day Reverse Repo rate by 25 basis...
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