Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Macroeconomic Developments, Policies and Issues: An Historical Overview from a Political Economy Perspective Part 1: Sources of Economic Growth and Household Consumption Behaviour 3. Sources of Economic Growth 4. Household Consumption Behaviour Part 2: Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty 5. Sources and Dynamics of Inflation 6. Inflation and Inflation Uncertainty 7. Monetary Policy and Stability of the Narrow Money-Demand Function Part 3: Exports, Imports and Real Exchange Rates 8. Export Trends, Structure and Determinants 9. Import Trends, Structure and Determinants 10. Determinants of the Real Exchange Rate Part 4: Monetary and Fiscal Policy 11. Exchange Rates, Capital Flows and Monetary Policy 12. Inflation Targeting: As Assessment of Design, Conduct and Performance 13. Fiscal Policy and Sustainability

About the Author

Akhand Akhtar Hossain is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. His current research interests include money demand and inflation in the Asia-Pacific, and macroeconomic and monetary policy issues in Bangladesh and Indonesia.

Reviews

"The book presents comprehensive empirical research on the key macroeconomic relations and monetary policy issues in Indonesia... Most chapters in the book are self-contained and can be independently studied."-Siwage Dharma Negara; Journal of Southeast Asian Economics, Vol. 30, No. 1, April 2013.