C Peter Timmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 251089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Peter Timmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Timmer |
| SIGNATURE | TIMMER C P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8937-3238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Periphery and Small Ones Matter: Interplay of Policy and Social Capital
Pro-poor growth in Indonesia: Challenging the pessimism of Myrdal's Asian Drama
This chapter addresses the unrelenting pessimism in Asian Drama about Indonesia’s development prospects. This pessimism was based on two key realities: the poor level of governance demonstrated by the Sukarno regime (partly a heritage of Dutch colonial policies) and the extreme poverty witnessed in rural areas. Using historical and modern data on the Indonesian economy, the chapter explains the policy approach that resulted in three decades of ra…
Food Security, Structural Transformation, Markets and Government Policy
Food prices are a key signal about what is happening to food security, and two dimensions are important: their average level (and whether this is rising or falling in the long run) and their volatility. Food price instability slows down economic growth and the structural transformation that is the pathway out of rural poverty. The best approaches to improving food security depend on which global food price regime is likely to drive policy formati…
DavidRieffThe Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty‐First CenturyNew York: Simon and Schuster, 2015. xxviii + 402 p. $27.00; $18.96 (pbk)
A lot of soul-searching went into this book, which asks why hunger is such a continuing challenge in the face of more-than-adequate food supplies. David Rieff spent six years researching and writing it, and he seems to have decided that getting the question right is essential. For Rieff, the basic question is: are you an optimist or a pessimist about the prospects for ending hunger “now” (or soon, or in a decade or two)? During the course of the …
Land and Development in Indonesia: Searching for the People’s Sovereignty
Who controls the land? What difference does it make? A young professional in Jakarta or Surabaya probably does not care. Few in the emerging urban middle class will know the owner of their apartmen
Transformation of the Indonesian Agrifood System and the Future beyond Rice: A Special Issue
Food Security in A sia and the P acific: The Rapidly Changing Role of Rice
Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress has been made in the past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food security—improved availability, access, utilisation and stability—food security has never been at higher levels. Large pockets of food‐insecure populations remain in the region, especially in South Asia, and co…
The Economics of the Food System Revolution
A revolution in food systems—food supply chains upstream from farms, to the food industry in the midstream segments of processing and wholesale and in the downstream segment of retail, then on to consumers—has been under way in the United States for more than a century and in developing countries for more than three decades. The transformation includes extensive consolidation, very rapid institutional and organizational change, and progressive mo…
Reflections on food crises past
Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda
Indonesian Rice Production: Policies and Realities
Indonesian rice production grew rapidly between 1977 and 1982, but the self-sufficiency achieved in 1984 was short-lived. Growth declined gradually from about 1982, eventually stabilising at a low rate in the late 1990s. This paper discusses factors that have influenced these outcomes over the last five decades, in an attempt to inform policy makers interested in trying to restore self-sufficiency. The earlier experience showed that self-sufficie…
Rice Policy in Indonesia: A Special Issue
Rice is Indonesia's single most important commodity: almost all of her 220 million people consume it, and for most it is the staple food. Rice is also an important part of the rural economy: althou
Japan and a Solution to the World Rice Crisis
The G8 Summit has come and gone, and with it a missed opportunity for Japan to take center stage for helping to resolve the world rice crisis. Although significant relief from the peak rice prices in April has already been achieved, in part due to an early announcement by Japan that it would release some of its imported rice stocks, there has been no follow-up by the Japanese government to sustain the momentum achieved in May, and to keep rice pr…
Pathways Out Of Poverty During An Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment Of Rural Indonesia
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural non-farm enterprises or via rural-urban migration. We use cross-sectional data from the Central Statistical Board (BPS) for 1993 and 2002, as well as a panel da…
Macro shocks and micro outcomes: Child nutrition during Indonesia’s crisis
The road to pro-poor growth: The Indonesian experience in regional perspective
Indonesia's long-run 'pro-poor growth' record is among the best in Asia. It shows that appropriate policies can free societies from poverty's worst manifestations in a generation, a crucial message as democracy begins to influence the policy process. This paper places Indonesia's record in regional perspective, analysing determinants of income distribution in Asia and connecting this analysis to Indonesia's pro-poor growth process and the policy …
The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital cities of the countries in these regions. The rapid rise of supermarkets in these regions in the past five to ten years has transformed agrifood markets…
The macro dimensions of food security: Economic growth, equitable distribution, and food price stability
Does Bulog Stabilise Rice Prices in Indonesia? Should It Try
The intuition of economists is likely to be a poor guide to the social value of food price stabilisation, because of problems in modelling the impact of stabilisation on consumer behaviour, producer behaviour, and the macro economy, including the impact on economic growth. The potential for stable food prices to contribute to economic growth is especially relevant to the poor countries of Asia, where rice is important in macroeconomic terms. Indo…
Introduction to getting agriculture moving
Getting agriculture moving: Do markets provide the right signals
Rural Bias in the East and South‐East Asian rice economy: Indonesia in comparative perspective
This study analyses the rise in protection of rice farmers in East and South‐east Asia since 1960. A statistical model of price formation is tested for Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. On average, about 90 per cent of variation in rice prices in these five countries — relative to the world price ‐ can be an attributed to efforts at price stabilisation rather than farmer protection (or discrimination in earlier periods)…
In memoriam
Food price policy
"Redesigning Rural Development" from a Food Policy Perspective Redesigning Rural Development: A Strategic Perspective . Bruce F. Johnston , William C. Clark
Reflections on food crises past
The macro dimensions of food security: Economic growth, equitable distribution, and food price stability
Food price policy
Does Bulog Stabilise Rice Prices in Indonesia? Should It Try
The intuition of economists is likely to be a poor guide to the social value of food price stabilisation, because of problems in modelling the impact of stabilisation on consumer behaviour, producer behaviour, and the macro economy, including the impact on economic growth. The potential for stable food prices to contribute to economic growth is especially relevant to the poor countries of Asia, where rice is important in macroeconomic terms. Indo…
The road to pro-poor growth: The Indonesian experience in regional perspective
Indonesia's long-run 'pro-poor growth' record is among the best in Asia. It shows that appropriate policies can free societies from poverty's worst manifestations in a generation, a crucial message as democracy begins to influence the policy process. This paper places Indonesia's record in regional perspective, analysing determinants of income distribution in Asia and connecting this analysis to Indonesia's pro-poor growth process and the policy …
Getting agriculture moving: Do markets provide the right signals
Do Supermarkets Change the Food Policy Agenda
Choice of Technique in Rice Milling on Java
Indonesian Rice Production: Policies and Realities
Indonesian rice production grew rapidly between 1977 and 1982, but the self-sufficiency achieved in 1984 was short-lived. Growth declined gradually from about 1982, eventually stabilising at a low rate in the late 1990s. This paper discusses factors that have influenced these outcomes over the last five decades, in an attempt to inform policy makers interested in trying to restore self-sufficiency. The earlier experience showed that self-sufficie…
Rice Policy in Indonesia: A Special Issue
Rice is Indonesia's single most important commodity: almost all of her 220 million people consume it, and for most it is the staple food. Rice is also an important part of the rural economy: althou
Food Security in A sia and the P acific: The Rapidly Changing Role of Rice
Food security in Asia and the Pacific presents a frustrating paradox. At one level, huge progress has been made in the past half century in bringing most of the population out of poverty and hunger. Measured by the key determinants of food security—improved availability, access, utilisation and stability—food security has never been at higher levels. Large pockets of food‐insecure populations remain in the region, especially in South Asia, and co…
Food Security, Structural Transformation, Markets and Government Policy
Food prices are a key signal about what is happening to food security, and two dimensions are important: their average level (and whether this is rising or falling in the long run) and their volatility. Food price instability slows down economic growth and the structural transformation that is the pathway out of rural poverty. The best approaches to improving food security depend on which global food price regime is likely to drive policy formati…
Fertiliser and food policy in LDCs
Transformation of the Indonesian Agrifood System and the Future beyond Rice: A Special Issue
Food prices and food policy analysis in LDCs
Food Policy and Food Demand in Indonesia
(1980). Food Policy and Food Demand in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 83-93
Estimating Rice Consumption
The role of US agriculture in foreign policy
The harmful fungi of tomatoes and their problem to the processor
Estimating Rice Consumption
Wheat Flour Consumption
(1971). Wheat Flour Consumption. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 78-95
Choice of Technique in Rice Milling on Java
Food Grain Marketing in India: Private Performance and Public Policy. Uma Lele
Fertiliser and food policy in LDCs
Food prices and food policy analysis in LDCs
The new politics of food
Critical food issues of the eighties
The role of US agriculture in foreign policy
Food Policy and Food Demand in Indonesia
(1980). Food Policy and Food Demand in Indonesia. Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 83-93
Is There "Curvature" in the Slutsky Matrix
D O the poor substitute among commodities more flexibly than the rich when relative prices change, even when compensated for the income effects of the price changes? Is it necessary to add a third dimension to the Slutsky substitution matrix to identify household income? In short, do the terms of the Slutsky elasticity matrix curve smoothly from poor households to rich households in such a way that equation (1) is meaningful
"Redesigning Rural Development" from a Food Policy Perspective Redesigning Rural Development: A Strategic Perspective . Bruce F. Johnston , William C. Clark
Food price policy
Rural Bias in the East and South‐East Asian rice economy: Indonesia in comparative perspective
This study analyses the rise in protection of rice farmers in East and South‐east Asia since 1960. A statistical model of price formation is tested for Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. On average, about 90 per cent of variation in rice prices in these five countries — relative to the world price ‐ can be an attributed to efforts at price stabilisation rather than farmer protection (or discrimination in earlier periods)…
In memoriam
Introduction to getting agriculture moving
Getting agriculture moving: Do markets provide the right signals
Does Bulog Stabilise Rice Prices in Indonesia? Should It Try
The intuition of economists is likely to be a poor guide to the social value of food price stabilisation, because of problems in modelling the impact of stabilisation on consumer behaviour, producer behaviour, and the macro economy, including the impact on economic growth. The potential for stable food prices to contribute to economic growth is especially relevant to the poor countries of Asia, where rice is important in macroeconomic terms. Indo…
The macro dimensions of food security: Economic growth, equitable distribution, and food price stability
The Rise of Supermarkets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Supermarkets are traditionally viewed by development economists, policymakers, and practitioners as the rich world's place to shop. The three regions discussed here have a great majority of the poor on the planet. But supermarkets are no longer just niche players for rich consumers in the capital cities of the countries in these regions. The rapid rise of supermarkets in these regions in the past five to ten years has transformed agrifood markets…
Macro shocks and micro outcomes: Child nutrition during Indonesia’s crisis
The road to pro-poor growth: The Indonesian experience in regional perspective
Indonesia's long-run 'pro-poor growth' record is among the best in Asia. It shows that appropriate policies can free societies from poverty's worst manifestations in a generation, a crucial message as democracy begins to influence the policy process. This paper places Indonesia's record in regional perspective, analysing determinants of income distribution in Asia and connecting this analysis to Indonesia's pro-poor growth process and the policy …
Pathways Out Of Poverty During An Economic Crisis: An Empirical Assessment Of Rural Indonesia
Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realised in farming, rural non-farm enterprises or via rural-urban migration. We use cross-sectional data from the Central Statistical Board (BPS) for 1993 and 2002, as well as a panel da…
Indonesian Rice Production: Policies and Realities
Indonesian rice production grew rapidly between 1977 and 1982, but the self-sufficiency achieved in 1984 was short-lived. Growth declined gradually from about 1982, eventually stabilising at a low rate in the late 1990s. This paper discusses factors that have influenced these outcomes over the last five decades, in an attempt to inform policy makers interested in trying to restore self-sufficiency. The earlier experience showed that self-sufficie…
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