This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for May 21, 2018 contains economic highlights including: Bank Indonesia (BI) will conduct three foreign-exchange swap auctions this week to ensure there is...
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic Update for May 18, 2018 contains economic highlights including: Bank Indonesia (BI) Board of Governors agreed to raise the BI 7 Day Reverse Repo Rate by 25 basis...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 17, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: the Ministry of Trade has issued a permit for State Logistics Agency (Bulog) to import an additional...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 16, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Bank Indonesia (BI) reported that external debt grew 8.7 percent year-on-year to USD 358.7 billion...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 15, 2018 contains economic highlights, including that the government has released the Presidential Decree No. 40/2018 on the renewal of Core Tax System...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 14, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: Indonesia is set to open 8 more seaports for international trade to add the existing 141 ports; The...
The Jakarta Composite Index fell 2.9 percent over the week, in line with most markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar by 0.4 percent but appreciated against Euro and Japanese...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 9, 2018 contains economic highlights including : (i) the government has introduced the use of a barcode system to monitor an online database of commodities...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 8, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: foreign exchange reserves were United States dollars (USD) 124.9 billion at the end of April, USD...
This issue of Indonesia daily economic update for May 7, 2018 contains economic highlights, including: central statistics agency (BPS) recorded a year-on-year 5.06 percent growth in the first quarter of...
The Jakarta Composite Index rose 2.8 percent over the week, in line with most markets in the region. The Rupiah depreciated against the US Dollar, Euro and Japanese Yen by 0.8, 0.1 and 0.4 percent, respectively,...
Each day, tens of thousands of girls worldwide are married while still children, often before they may be physically and emotionally ready to become wives and mothers. Child marriage, defined as marriage...
Type: BriefReport#: 125882Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Edmeades, J. ;
John, N. ;
Kes, A. ;
Male, Chata ;
Murithi, L. ;
Nayihouba, Kolobadia Ada ;
Onagoruwa, Adenike Opeoluwa ;
Petroni, S. ;
Savadogo, Aboudrahyme ;
Steinhaus, M. ;
Wodon, Quentin T. ;
Yedan, Ali
Social accountability (SA) refers to citizens' ability to ensure that their government fulfils its obligations and commitments and to hold the government responsible for violating or neglecting those duties....
Type: BriefReport#: 130562Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Bennouna, Cyril ;
Kusumaningrum, Santi ;
Laugen, Chris ;
Siagian, Clara Tania R
Many education systems around the world have reached nearly universal access to schooling, but ensuring high quality learning for all students has proven to be more difficult to achieve. Results-based...
Type: BriefReport#: 128149Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Bostani, Neda ;
Cascallar, Eduardo Cesar ;
Crawford, Michael F. ;
Musso, Mariel Fernanda
Jamaica is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity. Several types of disasters frequently occur including hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods and landslides....
Type: BriefReport#: 126537Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Boyer, Mary Elinor ;
Cox, Kerri Dionne ;
Gunasekera, Rashmin ;
Humbert, Thibaut ;
Ishizawa Escudero, Oscar Anil ;
Lu, Xijie
Digital financial services (DFS) differ from traditional financial services in several ways that have major implications for regulators. The technology enables new operating models that involve a wider...
Type: BriefReport#: 129138Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Meagher, J. Patrick ;
Staschen, Stefan
Grenada is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity. Several types of disasters, such as hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods, and landslides, frequently...
Type: BriefReport#: 126536Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Boyer, Mary Elinor ;
Cox, Kerri Dionne ;
Gunasekera, Rashmin ;
Humbert, Thibaut ;
Ishizawa Escudero, Oscar Anil ;
Lu, Xijie
As populations in West Africa grow and migrate to the urban areas of coastal regions, the coastal environments come under increasing threat. The ecological and environmental services offered by the coastal...
Saint Lucia is highly exposed to natural disasters of varying intensity and severity, including hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, droughts, floods and landslides. Between 1980 and 2014, many hurricanes...
Type: BriefReport#: 126538Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Boyer, Mary Elinor ;
Cox, Kerri Dionne ;
Gunasekera, Rashmin ;
Humbert, Thibaut ;
Ishizawa Escudero, Oscar Anil ;
Lu, Xijie
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