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Toll Free Telephone Number: Important Thing for Your Business
Nowadays we always hear this term: toll free numbers, a special telephone number, in that the called party is charged the cost of the calls by the telephone carrier, instead of the calling party. The cost of the call to the called party is usually based on factors such as the amount of usage the … Continue reading
North Sulawesi Fishery Exports Reach US$45.23 Million
North Sulawesi`s exports of fish and fish products reached a value of US$45.23 million in the first semester of this year, a local trade official said. “The income came from exports totaling 20,735.18 tons of various fish and fish products to various countries in the world,” the head of the local foreign trade service, Hanny … Continue reading
Minister Asks Japan to Increase Market Capacity to Absorb RI Workers
Indonesia hopes Japan will increase its market`s capacity to absorb Indonesian workers including trainees and business sectors accessible by the workers, an Indonesian minister said. Manpower Minister Erman Suparno expressed the hope here on Saturday in his speech at the signing of a memorandum of understanding with IMM which is an association of Japanese manpower … Continue reading
Indonesian Posts Second-Quarter Current Account Deficit
Indonesia posted a second-quarter current account deficit on Friday, its first in almost three years, but analysts were confident the country’s economic fundamentals remained sound. Southeast Asia’s largest economy recorded a current account deficit of 1.5 billion dollars, swinging from a surplus of 2.3 billion dollars in the first quarter, Bank Indonesia said in a … Continue reading
Indonesia may Surpass US’ Economy Too
Fellow bloggers at Indonesia Anonymus worry that Indonesians would just be spectators to the rise of China and India as the new world’s economic powerhouses: China and India would surpass US’ economy by 2035 and 2050 respectively. Ratio of country’s GDP to Indonesia’s GDP The truth is this: If history is any guide and Indonesia … Continue reading
Banks Comply with Capital Requirements?
Using dynamic panel data models, we examine the effect of capital requirement on banks’ behavior in Indonesia. We find inconclusive results. Banks tend to comply with capital requirement: They increase their capital ratio when their CAR is lower than, or falling towards, the eight percent regulatory minimum. However, most of our results are statistically significant … Continue reading
Are Indonesia’s Poverty Rates Declining?
An old post by Arya Gaduh of Nalar Ekonomi caught my attention. It is about Indonesia’s latest poverty rates published by Statistics Indonesia (BPS): It reports that the number of Indonesian poor declines by 2.13 million, or about 1.2 percentage points (from 17.75% to 16.58%). The fall is not statistically significant, however, as Arya correctly … Continue reading
Malnutrition Make Indonesian Children Less Educated
In Indonesia, more than 30% of children under the age of 5 years suffer from chronic malnourishment. The long-term consequences of childhood malnutrition are well established in the literature. Yet, little is known about the extent to which these children are able to recover from some of the long-term deficits in health outcomes caused by … Continue reading
Indonesia mulls Opec withdrawal
Opec member Indonesia is considering leaving the oil cartel to concentrate on domestic production, the country’s president has said. Levels of oil production from its ageing wells are declining, making the country a net importer of oil when crude prices are at record levels. It has had to cut subsidies on domestic fuel to avoid … Continue reading