Indonesia after Economic Crisis: A Poverty Issues

This is some interesting points from a book entitle “Indonesian Living Standards Three Years After the Crisis: Evidence from the Indonesian Family Live Survey” written by Center for Population & Policy Studies Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, RAND, and Partnership for Economic Growth USAID. Real per capita GDP rose four-fold between 1965-1995. with annual growth rate averaging 4.5% per year. The

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Institutional Aspects of Agriculture Development in Japan

A Summary of Chapter II of the Agricultural Development of Japan: a Century’s Perspectives, by Hayami, Y. and S. Yamada, 1991, University of Tokyo Press. Transition to Modern Agricultural Growth The society was under rigid hierarchical class structure during Tokugawa regime, in that social mobility was low, and occupations were determined by blood. Based on this class, the feudal lords

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