Globally, cities rely on property taxes as a key source of revenues to finance the services that enhance its long-term competitiveness and counter the negative aspects of density. In developing countries,...
Type: BriefReport#: 129860Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Ali,Daniel Ayalew ;
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Wild,Michael
Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme - Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) - Indonesia aims to guarantee every Indonesian citizen stays healthy rather than to simply insure those who are sick. Therefore,...
The Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) benefits package covers a comprehensive range of secondary and tertiary referral services for participants. Purchasing of referral services under JKN is carried out...
Two thirds of sub-Saharan Africa’s citizens depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Women make up a large part of the agricultural workforce: in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), over 80...
This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis...
Type: BriefReport#: 183234Date: August 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
Estimating ex-ante distributional impacts of road infrastructure is increasingly important to better understand the poverty effects of these investments. This note presents such analysis for the ongoing...
Type: BriefReport#: 129437Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos ;
Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso ;
Franco,Jorge
This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis...
Type: BriefReport#: 183231Date: August 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
With over 70 percent of the country’s population having coverage under Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN), Indonesia now has one of the largest national health insurance programs in the world, at least in...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for August 1, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded a year-on-year inflation of 3.2 percent in July 2018,...
The review found that the regulatory environment for implementing Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) is dynamic - in terms of and can cause confusion with implementation on the ground. Changes in regulations...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 31, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank of Indonesia (BI) is now working to reach its target for quick response (QR) code payment standardization,...
The Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees should expand on the relationship between internal and international migration and displacement, identify ways to enhance international cooperation in identifying...
Type: BriefReport#: 193082Date: July 31, 2018Author:
Martin, Susan ;
Ferris, Elizabeth ;
Rigaud, Kanta Kumari ;
Bergmann, Jonas
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 30, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the government is preparing a presidential regulation requiring all sectors to use the 20-percent...
The Jakarta Composite Index rose 0.3 percent over the week, in line with major markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar by 0.1 percent but appreciated against the Euro and Japanese...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 27, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia (BI) is planning to regularly release four new indicators on job vacancy, property...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 26, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The government is revising a presidential regulation on biodiesel incentives in a bid to expand...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 25, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: The House of Representatives (DPR RI) has ratified the amendment of Regulation No. 20/1997 on Non-tax...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for July 24, 2018 contains economic highlights including: Bank Indonesia (BI) is to launch a new interest rate mechanism called INDONIA as a benchmark of Jakarta...
This story highlights reducing corruption in the extractives sector is a high priority of the global development agenda. Corruption can dramatically impede economic development and contribute to illicit...
Policy makers are increasingly turning to behavioral science to help tackle intractable policy challenges, including increasing student learning, raising savings rates, promoting energy and resource conservation,...
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