TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Bank Indonesia (BI) Governor Perry Warjiyo said the decline in import, particularly in the oil and gas sector, in September, showed the results of BI and the government’s efforts to reduce the current account deficit in recent times. “There are early signs that lead to better improvement,” Perry said at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Monday, […]
Read MoreKUALA LUMPUR: Policy makers should take into account the household income disparities among different states in Malaysia when formulating policies to achieve their targeted objectives, Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) argues. The institute’s research director Suraya Ismail said if policy makers did not root their policies in the context of the different realities faced by households […]
Read MoreThe Excise Department expects to conclude a tax structure for electric vehicles (EVs) in the next couple of months, says its newly appointed head. “A new working panel chaired by me has been set up, and I confirm taxes for EVs will not be delayed, and should become clearer in the next 1-2 months as operators want need some […]
Read MoreThe government may reduce its non-infrastructure spending, once it suspends the second tranche of oil excise taxes, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Monday.Dominguez, who leads the inter-agency Development Budget Coordination Committee, said cutting non-infra spending would be an option while the DBCC was looking for contingency measures so that infrastructure spending would not be affected by the […]
Read MoreIf US-China trade tensions drag on, Vietnam will still see good growth but face strong exchange rate pressures exerted by two major currencies. After GDP growth reached 6.98 percent in the first 9 months of 2018, the highest in the past 8 years, it is relatively clear that the Government will reach its 6.7 percent growth target by the end […]
Read MoreNDO – Although full-year inflation will probably be contained at less than 4%, the average consumer price index (CPI) in the first nine months of 2018 was already 3.57%, putting the efforts to curb inflation in the remainder of the year under even greater pressure. Among the factors expected to have an impact on Vietnam’s […]
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