Rural investment climate in Indonesia / / edited by Neil McCulloch

• Pubblicazione: Singapore : , : Institue of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2009
• Edizione: 1st edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Disciplina: 332.67309598
• Soggetto topico: Rural industries - Indonesia; Investments - Indonesia
• Soggetto geografico: Indonesia Rural conditions
• Persona (resp. second.): McCullochNeil <1964->
• Note generali: Description based on print version record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Agricultural demand linkages and growth multipliers in rural Indonesia / Asep Suryahadi ... [et al.] -- Trends and contrainsts associated with labour faced by non-farm enterprises / Armida S. Alisjahbana and Chris Manning -- The constraints in accessing credit faced by rural non-farm enterprises / Andi Ikhwan and Don Edwin Johnston -- The constraints associated with infrastructure faced by non-farm level enterprises at the kabupaten level / John Gibson -- Technology/knowledge transfer and diffusion in Indonesian non-farm enterprises / Tulus Tambunan and Thee Kian Wie -- Marketing and competition in the new Indonesia / Hal Hill and Pantjar Simatupang -- Local tax effects on the business climate / Blane D. Lewis and Bambang Suharnoko Sjahrir -- Leadership and voice in local governance / Christian von Luebke -- Insecurity and business development in rural Indonesia / Jonathan Haughton and John M. MacDougall.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the constraints facing the development of rural non-farm enterprises in Indonesia. Recent years have seen a substantial effort by the Indonesian government to improve the investment climate. To date, much of this effort has focused on the constraints faced by businesses at the national level. However, if Indonesia is to be successful in creating jobs and reducing poverty across the archipelago, this will require improving the investment climate for the 15.7 million micro and small enterprises that employ more than half of all the non-farm workers in the country. This book brings together leading Indonesian and international academics to consider seven key constraints that RNFEs face: labour regulations and practices; infrastructure; competition and marketing; knowledge transfer and technology; access to credit and financial services; local taxation and user charges; and insecurity. In each case the authors draw on the Indonesian Rural Investment Climate Survey, a unique dataset of more than 2,500 RNFEs, to identify the size and nature of the constraints, the way in which they impact upon enterprise growth and the implications for policy. In addition, a key chapter estimates the strength of the linkage between agriculture and non-agricultural activities in rural areas, showing that agricultural revitalization is an essential complement to the development of the non-farm economy. "Understanding the rural investment climate in both slow- and fast-growing economies has taken on new urgency in the wake of the world food crisis. The rural non-farm economy often provides half or more of the income of farm families and is especially important for food-deficit rural households hard-hit by rising food prices. The Indonesian Rural Investment Climate Assessment is the "gold standard" for how to achieve this understanding. It is a delight to see it published and available to a wide audience." - C. Peter Timmer, Visiting Professor, Program on Food Security and Environment, Stanford University; Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development
• Titolo autorizzato: Rural Investment Climate in Indonesia
• ISBN: 981-4459-07-0; 981-230-854-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910679920203321
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