Since the start of the reform in the late 1990s, Indonesia has implemented an ambitious
decentralization policy. One of its aims is to foster regional development from below by …

Evaluating the total numbers of people at risk from infectious disease in the world requires
not just tabular population data, but data that are spatially explicit and global in extent at a …

Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions and
threatens the world's most diverse ecosystems. Much of this deforestation is driven by illegal …

How do income shocks affect international migration flows from poor countries? Income
growth not only increases the opportunity cost of migration but also eases liquidity …

Numerous developing countries have substantially increased their number of subnational
administrative units in recent years. The literature on this phenomenon is, nonetheless …

We investigate the effects of the fiscal, administrative and political decentralization process
in Indonesia on budget allocation at the sub-national level. We find that after the large-scale …

The effects of economic and political reforms on patronage in Africa remains unclear. In
particular, there is much disagreement about whether structural adjustment programs and …

We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993–2002 on regional
poverty levels in 259 Indonesian districts, and investigate the labor market mechanisms …

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest
conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district–level panel data set from 2001 to 2016 …

The local‐government proliferation practice, as an implementation of Indonesia's
decentralization reform, has resulted in a fragmentation of regional development, in which …