Public debates over the success and failures of development have been generally based on some limited types of metrics known to the general public and reported over a broad range of disaggregation.

This study is a collaboration between CEDS and the government of Riau Island Province to design a master plan for the acceleration of economic development of the province. Riau Islands Province is a relatively new province of Indonesia.

In this study, we argue that the intensification of capital use and an acceleration of real wage growth can be the main culprits of the “jobless growth” in Indonesian manufacturing sector for the period of 1999-2008, a period of recovery from the Asian Crisis.

Policymakers in 15 developing countries in Latin America, South, East and Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will soon have access to evidence-based policy options for improving budget allocations in health, education and water.