In the past few decades, the Government of Indonesia has passed and signed a substantial number of domestic laws and international conventions/treaties that deal with the rights and opportunities of persons with disabilities (PWDs). Disability is a cross-...
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In the past 15 years, the Government of Indonesia has implemented a variety of social assistance pro- grammes intended to improve the lives of the poor and help them escape poverty. Many of these programmes are now operating at a national scale and cover...
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Indonesia has undergone a demographic transition since the 1970s that has led to significant changes in the population age structure of the country. Life expectancy at birth increased from 45 years to 67 years. The number of elderly people aged 60 and above...
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The author generates a household-and economy-level impact simulation, using observed parametersfrom actual public works programme implementation, to answer the following question: when there is a choice among feasible infrastructure-provision technologies,...
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Centralised targeting registries are increasingly used to allocate social assistance benefits in developing countries. This paper provides the first attempt to identify the relative importance of two key design issues for targeting accuracy: (1) which...
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In 2012, the Demographic Institute of the University of Indonesia conducted on behalf of TNP2K a unique survey on disability that sheds new light on the needs and living conditions of people with disabilities (PWDs) in Indonesia. This new dataset is called...
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