Documents et rapports

Product Market Monopolies and Labor Market Monopsonies (anglais)

This paper unveils a novel externality of product market regulation in the labor market. It shows theoretically and empirically that higher barriers to entry in product markets translate into higher employers’...

Building a Dataset for Non-Tariff Measures and its Usage : The Case of Indonesia and Applicability for Other Countries (anglais)

As import tariffs have been declining over the past decades, non-tariff measures (NTMs) have become the most frequently used measures in trade policy. The increasing use of NTMs in global trade has highlighted...

Caring for Children and Firms? The Impact of Preschool Expansion on Firm Productivity (anglais)

Childcare services enable women who were previously unable to work due to taking care of their children to join the labor market. If some women are more productive in market work, rather than unpaid household...

Trade Policy and Exporters’ Resilience : Evidence from Indonesia (anglais)

How does trade policy affect exporters’ ability to respond to foreign demand shocks? Faced with a sudden change in the demand for their goods, exporting firms must optimally change their inputs and/or...

Tunisia Economic Monitor : Economic Reforms to Navigate Out of the Crisis - Winter 2021 : Executive Summary (arabe)

The Economic Monitor examines four possible factors behind Tunisia’s slow recovery. First, the drop in mobility related to the pandemic may have been more harmful in Tunisia. However, mobility in Tunisia...

Tunisia Economic Monitor : Economic Reforms to Navigate Out of the Crisis - Winter 2021 : Executive Summary (anglais)

The Economic Monitor examines four possible factors behind Tunisia’s slow recovery. First, the drop in mobility related to the pandemic may have been more harmful in Tunisia. However, mobility in Tunisia...

Tunisia Economic Monitor : Economic Reforms to Navigate Out of the Crisis - Winter 2021 : Executive Summary (français)

The Economic Monitor examines four possible factors behind Tunisia’s slow recovery. First, the drop in mobility related to the pandemic may have been more harmful in Tunisia. However, mobility in Tunisia...

Tunisia Economic Monitor : Economic Reforms to Navigate Out of the Crisis - Winter 2021 (français)

The Economic Monitor examines four possible factors behind Tunisia’s slow recovery. First, the drop in mobility related to the pandemic may have been more harmful in Tunisia. However, mobility in Tunisia...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - TUNISIA FIRST RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY EMERGENCY DEVELOPMENT POLICY FINANCING - P173324 - Sequence No : 01 (anglais)

Non-Tariff Measures, Import Competition, and Exports (anglais)

The empirical evidence on the impact of import competition on economic performance relies mainly on import tariff liberalization as the source of changes to competition. This paper extends this evidence...

Automation and Manufacturing Performance in a Developing Country (anglais)

This paper provides novel evidence on the economic impact of industrial automation in a large developing economy. It combines labor force survey and manufacturing plant-level data from Indonesia over 2008–15...

Gain without Pain ? Non-Tariff Measures, Plants’ Productivity and Markups (anglais)

This paper studies how productivity and markups respond to non-tariff measures. The analysis uses a novel time-varying data set on all non-tariff measures applied to imported products by Indonesia. Price...

Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Indonesia Investment and Trade Reforms DPL - P172439 (anglais)

Tunisia Economic Monitor : Navigating Out of the Crisis – Spring 2021 (anglais)

Due to disruptions in international trade and tourism triggered by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the Tunisian economy contracted by unprecedented levels during 2020. Fortunately, recent data indicates...

Unlocking Constraints for Better Private Sector Participation (anglais)

Indonesians have become healthier in recent decades as confirmed by the progress on key health indicators. Despite these advancements, significant challenges remain in improving maternal health and nutrition...

Concept Program Information Document (PID) - Indonesia Investment and Trade Reforms DPL - P172439 (anglais)

EdTech in Indonesia : Ready for Take-off? (anglais)

This EdTech landscape survey provides an overview of the Indonesian startup ecosystem in EdTech, drawing upon three main sources of information: publicly available data, information collected via an online-questionnaire...

Country Private Sector Diagnostic : Creating Markets in Indonesia - Unlocking the Dynamism of the Indonesian Private Sector (anglais)

Three decades of robust economic growth have substantially reduced poverty in Indonesia, yet the vast majority of Indonesians still lack the economic security that marks a sustainable transition into the...

Too Much Energy : The Perverse Effect of Low Fuel Prices on Firms (anglais)

This paper provides novel evidence on the impact of changes in energy prices on manufacturing performance in two large developing economies -- Indonesia and Mexico. It finds that unlike increases in electricity...

Economic and Distributional Impacts of Free Trade Agreements : The Case of Indonesia (anglais)

As preferential trade agreements are growing in number and depth, assessment of their economic impacts has become more important to inform policy-makers facing a multitude of potential preferential trade...