Rashesh Shrestha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4407658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rashesh Shrestha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rashesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrestha |
| SIGNATURE | SHRESTHA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9142-5001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Commodity Booms, Conflict, and Organized Crime: Logics of Violence in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Economy
This article examines the relationship between commodity booms and the incidence of group conflict and criminality in the context of Indonesia’s expanding oil palm sector. Informed by original fieldwork, the article theorizes that violence will occur where there are choke points in a commodity’s production supply chain. Such choke points create the opportunity and incentive for armed groups—including “mafias,” youth gangs, landholders, and state …
Can Indonesia Secure a Development Dividend from Its Resource Export Boom
Indonesia has enjoyed a long spell of sustained and relatively rapid economic expansion, largely on the back of strong commodity prices. No commodity boom lasts forever, however, and threats to the continuation of this growth are mounting. Indonesia now faces the challenge of locking in gains and setting a course to sustain future development in less favourable times. Post-2000 growth differs from earlier experience in that exports of agricultura…
Could a Resource Export Boom Reduce Workers’ Earnings? The Labour-Market Channel in Indonesia
For a decade from 2000, Indonesia underwent a natural-resource export boom. Aggregate income rose, but real labour earnings stagnated. Employment rose, too, but mainly in low-skill sectors with predominantly informal employment arrangements. In this article, we reveal causal connections from the aggregate phenomenon of Dutch disease to these labour-market outcomes. We first explain broad sectoral trends, and then, integrating data from several na…
Can Indonesia Secure a Development Dividend from Its Resource Export Boom
Indonesia has enjoyed a long spell of sustained and relatively rapid economic expansion, largely on the back of strong commodity prices. No commodity boom lasts forever, however, and threats to the continuation of this growth are mounting. Indonesia now faces the challenge of locking in gains and setting a course to sustain future development in less favourable times. Post-2000 growth differs from earlier experience in that exports of agricultura…
Could a Resource Export Boom Reduce Workers’ Earnings? The Labour-Market Channel in Indonesia
For a decade from 2000, Indonesia underwent a natural-resource export boom. Aggregate income rose, but real labour earnings stagnated. Employment rose, too, but mainly in low-skill sectors with predominantly informal employment arrangements. In this article, we reveal causal connections from the aggregate phenomenon of Dutch disease to these labour-market outcomes. We first explain broad sectoral trends, and then, integrating data from several na…
Can Indonesia Secure a Development Dividend from Its Resource Export Boom
Indonesia has enjoyed a long spell of sustained and relatively rapid economic expansion, largely on the back of strong commodity prices. No commodity boom lasts forever, however, and threats to the continuation of this growth are mounting. Indonesia now faces the challenge of locking in gains and setting a course to sustain future development in less favourable times. Post-2000 growth differs from earlier experience in that exports of agricultura…
Commodity Booms, Conflict, and Organized Crime: Logics of Violence in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Plantation Economy
This article examines the relationship between commodity booms and the incidence of group conflict and criminality in the context of Indonesia’s expanding oil palm sector. Informed by original fieldwork, the article theorizes that violence will occur where there are choke points in a commodity’s production supply chain. Such choke points create the opportunity and incentive for armed groups—including “mafias,” youth gangs, landholders, and state …
Boom (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Mining and Resource Management (3 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Commodity (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Oil boom (2 works)