Advanced and developing economies in 2022 recorded their highest inflation rates for over a decade (Global Economic Prospects, January 2023). Global inflation soared in 2022, rising above 9…

Assyifa Szami Ilman, Indira Maulani Hapsari |

Research and surveys consistently show that firms do not rank tax incentives as the primary reason for choosing where to invest. Instead, political and macroeconomic stability, the legal…

Viet Anh Nguyen, Hassan Zaman |

Indonesia will need to continue to develop its financial system if it is to break the middle-income ceiling.

Francesco Strobbe, Owen Nie, Habib Rab |

Electronic devices enable innovations in survey design, such as questionnaires that adapt to responses. This blog leverages the potential to create a new survey-based tool for determining…

Tim Ohlenburg, Juul Pinxten, Daniel Fricke, Fabio Caccioli |

Supporting investments in the childcare and early development can deliver long-term human capital gains for Indonesia's future generations of workers.

Anna O'Donnell |

This blog is a biweekly feature highlighting recent working papers from around the World Bank Group. It introduces six papers published in January of 2023 on various topics, including gender,…

Marcelo Buitron, Policy Research Working Paper team |

Learn from Indonesia and Sri Lanka on how health systems are fuelled by their financing arrangements and getting them right is crucial for ensuring people remain at their heart.

Christoph Kurowski, Kara Hanson, Somil Nagpal |

Speaking with families in the village of Serdang Kulon in October I got a sense of the momentous change currently underway to ensure children across Indonesia get every chance for a healthy and…

Mamta Murthi |

Learn more about the potential of the sovereign green, social and sustainability bond market to mobilize private capital.

Farah Imrana Hussain, Helena Dill, Banu Turhan Kayaalp |