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Indonesia Economic Quarterly, December 2013 : Slower Growth, High Risks
No full textThe Indonesia Economic Quarterly (IEQ)
has two main aims. First, it reports on the key developments
over the past three months in Indonesia's economy, and
places these in a longer-term and global context. Based on
these developments, and on policy changes over the period,
the IEQ regularly updates the outlook for Indonesia's
economy and social welfare. Second, the IEQ provides a more
in-depth examination of selected economic and policy issues,
and analysis of Indonesia's medium-term development
challenges. This document summarizes the findings of the IEQ
for the last quarter of 2013. The final quarter has seen the
continuing adjustment of the Indonesian economy to more
subdued commodity prices and tighter external financing
conditions, and to the related pressures on external
balances. Policies have responded, particularly through
tighter monetary conditions, the currency has depreciated
substantially in real terms, and investment spending and
output growth have weakened. These developments are broadly
supportive of continued macroeconomic stability, including
by helping to lower the current account deficit, although
their impact continues to play out, adding additional
uncertainty to the path of the domestic economy. At the same
time, the international environment is also shifting, with
global growth expected to improve, bringing potential policy
changes, notably in US monetary policy, which could add to
the pressures on Indonesia's external financing
position. In light of the slower pace of growth, and the
risks facing the economy, there is a strong need for
Indonesia to augment the recent macro focus on tighter
monetary policy, exchange rate adjustment and import
compression, with deeper reforms to lift export performance
and support investment inflows
Indonesia Economic Quarterly, March 2014 : Investment in Flux
No full textIndonesia's economy continues to
adjust to weaker terms of trade and tighter external
financing conditions, with the composition of growth tilting
more towards net exports, and economic growth slowing
moderately. While this shift is positive for macroeconomic
stability, it has to date been based primarily on tighter
monetary policy and the depreciation of the Rupiah in 2013,
the effects of which are continuing to play out. To further
reduce Indonesia's vulnerability to external shocks, to
minimize the risks of a more marked cyclical slowdown in
growth, and to convert the near-term macro adjustment into
strong, sustained growth over the longer term, further
progress on long-standing policy priorities is warranted.
Progress in three key areas can support both near-term macro
stability and Indonesia's long-term economic prospects.
First, there is a need to support domestic and foreign
investor confidence. Recent policy and regulatory
developments, including the partial ban on mineral exports,
have increased uncertainty, may weigh on investment across
the economy, and compound the usual difficulty of predicting
policy ahead of elections. Given rising fiscal pressures
from slower revenue growth and higher fuel subsidy costs,
the second priority is to broaden the revenue base and
improve the quality of spending, notably by reducing energy
subsidy expenditure. These measures would also increase
available fiscal space for more equitable, pro-growth
spending. Third, credible progress is needed on addressing
structural impediments to stronger and more inclusive
growth, namely infrastructure and worker skills gaps, and
factor and product market constraints. The policy
environment is naturally constrained ahead of legislative
elections in April and the presidential election in July.
However, in light of ongoing economic risks and
Indonesia's ambitious development agenda, laying the
groundwork for future reforms, minimizing policy
uncertainty, and making continued reform progress in some
areas, should remain a priority
Indonesia Economic Quarterly, July 2013 : Adjusting to Pressures
No full textThe second quarter of 2013 was an
eventful one as Indonesia's economy, policy settings
and financial markets adjusted to pressures which have been
mounting over recent quarters and to shifts in the global
environment. Following slightly weaker-than-expected growth
in the first quarter, there are signs that domestic demand,
particularly investment, has continued to moderate. On the
fiscal front, the combination of lower revenues and higher
subsidy spending continued to pressure public finances. A
revised Budget, incorporating a long a waited increase in
subsidized fuel prices, along with a comprehensive
compensation package to reduce the impact of higher fuel
prices on the poor, was approved on June 17. Meanwhile,
international financial markets have reacted strongly to the
prospect of quantitative easing in the US winding down in
coming quarters, triggering a major sell-off in emerging
market assets, including Indonesia, prompting Bank Indonesia
(BI) to adjust interest rates higher
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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