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The government has again been resorting to curbing imports in a bid to manage the current account balance, but this policy has not had a significantly positive impact on either the trade balance or manufacturing growth; rather, studies show it can have the opposite effect and eventually reduce exports.

Me and my colleague Deasy Pane of Bappenas look at how the follow-up regulation from Job Creation Law may restrict trade a great deal. In turn, this has the potential to distort the economy further with more red tape instead of less (paywalled)

This morning, as usual, I prepared breakfast, did the dishes, all while listening to a podcast. One of my favorite, Babbage aired the recent development of COVID-19, including the decreasing death rate across the world.

Just recently I finished a book titled The Gene: an Intimate History by Siddharta Mukherjee. The book started by a touching stories about Dr. Mukherjee and his family history, that his gene is ‘tainted’ by abnormality.

A couple of month ago, I just learned from a professor from my course about the new gravity dataset made by the United States International Trade Commission (USITC). Turns out, the USITC has not only a gravity dataset, but a dedicated page called “gravity portal” which contain some other data and software related to gravity estimation.

COVID-19 may punishes commodity exporter a bit more severe than other economies. As a country dependent on commodity for its employment and tax revenue, Indonesia needs to be prepared.

During the pandemic, most countries in the world reacted with export ban to secure availability of important product such Personal …

World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The organization has sent letters to inform global leaders to prepare themselves for the worst to come, including our very leader Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.

This article is originally appears here on my medium blog. I remake it in this blog because here I can use $$\LaTeX$$!! yay!! I don’t change anything so if you’ve red this in my medium domain then skip this.

IA-CEPA excited everyone when it was taken into effect, a result of 10 years long of negotiations between two great neighbours in the region. We are sceptical that IACEPA would economically matter at least in the short to medium term, but celebrates the right step taken between both countries.