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Frederico Gil Sander is the World Bank’s Lead Country Economist for Indonesia based in Jakarta. He coordinates the macroeconomic and fiscal analytical work program of the World Bank with the Government of Indonesia. Previously, Frederico was based in New Delhi as the World Bank’s economist for India, and before that in Bangkok, where he covered Malaysia for four years, as well as Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. Frederico joined the World Bank in 2006 in the Economic Policy and Debt department, where he worked on debt relief for poor countries, capacity building for debt management, and debt sustainability analyses. During that time, Frederico enjoyed working with debt managers in many African countries, including the Central African Republic, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe. Prior to joining the World Bank, Frederico worked on emerging market debt with investment bank Bear Stearns in New York, issuing bonds for emerging market governments and companies, and also provided corporate finance advisory services to Latin American and European firms. A native of Brazil, Frederico holds an MA and a PhD in political economy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a BA in Economics and International Studies from Yale University.

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    Time to ACT: Realizing Indonesia's Urban Potential
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2019-10-03) Roberts, Mark; Gil Sander, Frederico; Tiwari, Sailesh; Roberts, Mark; Gil Sander, Frederico; Tiwari, Sailesh
    In over 70 years since its independence, Indonesia has been transformed by urbanization, and within the next quarter of a century, its transition to an urban society will be almost complete. While urbanization has produced considerable benefits for Indonesians, urbanization has the potential to deliver more prosperity, inclusiveness and livability. Time to ACT: Realizing Indonesia's Urban Potential explores the extent to which urbanization in Indonesia has delivered in terms of prosperity, inclusiveness, and livability, and the fundamental reforms that can help the country realize its urban potential. In doing so, the report introduces a new policy framework - the ACT framework - to guide policymaking. This framework emphasizes three policy principles - the need to Augment the provision and quality of infrastructure and basic services across urban and rural locations; the need to better Connect places and people with jobs and opportunities; and the need to Target lagging areas and marginalized groups through well-designed place-based policies, as well as thoughtful urban planning and design. Using this framework, the report provides policy recommendations differentiated by types of place, grounded in solid empirical evidence
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    Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity in Indonesia: Where are All the Good Jobs?
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2020-02-14) Yoong, Pui Shen; Gil Sander, Frederico
    By some measures, the Indonesian labor market has never looked better. Underpinned by sound macroeconomic policies, steady economic growth of about 5 percent per annum over the past decade was associated with strong job creation. This article focuses on one driver of the quality of jobs in Indonesia: labor productivity growth and, in particular, the (limited) contribution of structural transformation. It shows how structural change - here defined as the reallocation of workers from low- to high-productivity economic activities - has contributed only a small share of labor productivity growth in the recent two decades. The main takeaway is that Indonesia need not worry as much about the quantity of jobs as the quality of those jobs. Both demand-side and supply-side interventions are needed to boost labor productivity so that more Indonesians can have middle-class jobs.
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    India Development Update, October 2015: Fiscal Policy for Equitable Growth
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2015-10) Shome, Saurabh; Gil Sander, Frederico; Seth, Smriti; Misra, Jaba
    Indias economy expanded by 7.3 percent in FY14-15 and 7.0 percent in Q1 FY15-16 (y/y). Industrial growth increased and despite government services slowing down, services expanded. Domestic drivers increased, while exports declined. Private consumption growth stayed strong and investments gained momentum. Gross domestic product is expected to increase gradually to 7.5 percent in FY15-16. The positive outlook is dependent upon the implementation of important domestic reforms which include: boosting the balance sheets of the banking sector through a sustainable solution of the debt overhang of primarily power and road infrastructure firms, continuing to improve the ease of doing business and enacting the crucial Goods and Services Tax, and enhancing capacity of state and local governments to deliver public services as more resources are devolved from the centre.
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    Malaysia Economic Monitor, December 2013 : High-Performing Education
    (World Bank, Bangkok, 2013-12) Jalil, Intan Nadia; Gil Sander, Frederico; Ali, Rabia
    Malaysia's economy regained momentum but yearly growth is set to decelerate in 2013. Export recovery into 2014 is expected to offset slower domestic demand and lead to a pick-up in growth. Fiscal consolidation is picking up pace with subsidy cuts, sin tax increases, and less generous public service bonuses. The full implementation of the minimum wage in January 2014 will provide an additional boost to households, as will increased cash transfers that are part of the government's strategy for subsidy rationalization and modernizing social protection. Malaysia performs very well with respect to access to education. Enrolments at primary and lower secondary levels are nearly universal and recent gains in pre-primary education have been note-worthy. Among East Asian countries that participated in the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Malaysian students only outperform their Indonesian peers, and lag even lower-income countries (including, by a wide margin, Vietnam). Expenditure on basic education is more than double that of other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and the decline in learning outcomes occurred while inputs to education were expanding and the size of the student population was falling. The key constraints to improving the quality of basic education thus relate not to the quantity of inputs but institutions. 46 percent of principals report a lack of qualified teaching staff as a constraint, and Ministry of Education (MOE) admits that in recent years some candidates enrolling in teacher training institutions did not meet minimum requirements of academic achievement at the secondary level. Lifting these constraints entails refining some of the measures recommended in the Education Blueprint for high-performing education system: (1) moving towards school-based decision-making; (2) improving parental involvement and enhancing accountability; and (3) improving incentives and recruitment for teachers. The government may consider piloting fixed contract recruitments with tenure contingent on performance, and tying retraining and up-skilling efforts with certification.