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This article describes how the Indonesian economy swung from a deficit in balance of payments of $160 to a $50 surplus. The imports of the country fell significantly, resulting in a decrease in deficit of the balance of trade in goods and services, which has been a factor in the swing in balance of payments.

Nation INDONESIA is offering another tax break for employers in labor-intensive sectors, aiming to rein in unemployment, in the latest of its series of stimulus measures, the chief economics minister said on Friday. Economic growth this year is set to be Indonesia's slowest in six years, although third-quarter growth showed a slight rebound.

The return of the haze to Singapore has brought the predictable round of complaints, analysis, hand-wringing, and soul-searching, but the problem never seems to improve. To establish a basis for actionable intervention, it is critical to link policy solutions with evidence about the health impacts of the haze-on residents of Indonesia.

(India, China and Brazil...) MELBOURNE: Emerging economies like India, China and Brazil are no longer "policy takers" but are significantly influencing the pattern and scope of international trade, according to WTO Director General Pascal Lamy. "These emerging powers -- China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa -- and many others are no longer policy takers.

A study done in certain Asian countries such as Indonesia and New Guinea show that these country's economies are being prevented from developing by malnutrition. Malnutrition has shown to stunt children's brain development. When children's brain development is slowed it prevents them from receiving the education they need to get out of poverty. Inn these countries education is often needed to remove them from poverty. If malnutrition countries to be this high in these countries it can prevent them from having developed economies.