The paper seeks to assess the reasons for the greatly improved performance of the Indonesian tourist sector in the latter part of the 1980s and to analyse the sector's economic impact. It also examines the potential of the sector in the 1990s to capture a greater share of a growing world market...

The main problem of many of the world's poorest countries is often seen as the failure of their predominantly agrarian economies to cope with their rapid population growth. But the history of some densely populated regions of the world shows that they have accommodated population growth through...

A distinct turn for the worse in the political situation of Indonesia in September and early October 1984. Recovery from the recession of 1982, which seemed to be gathering strength in 1983 and early 1984, faltered. Rapid rise in the Jakarta inter-bank interest rate in September 1984. Upward...

This paper examines the changing role of the central government in the final years of the Soeharto era and since 1998. It argues that although economic policy making is now conducted in a very different political climate from that of the Soeharto period, there remains a powerful institutional...

The literature on off-farm sources of income in rural areas of developing countries continues to grow. This paper uses data from the household income surveys carried out as part of the 1983 and 1993 agricultural censuses to explore aspects of the changing role of off-farm income sources for...