Designing more effective resettlement programs: Lessons from transmigration in Indonesia

Better matching between transmigrants’ origin and destination agroclimate and languages can substantially improve productivity and integration...

Hidden productivity benefits from energy-saving technology

Energy-efficient technologies are an increasingly relevant policy priority, given growing consensus on the need to tackle climate change. This column examines the productivity benefits of adopting one such technology – LED lighting – for manufacturin...

Floods and the location of economic activity

Economic activity is concentrated in low-lying urban areas despite greater risk of flooding, and tends to return to these areas rather than relocating...

Matching and migration: Lessons from a resettlement programme in Indonesia

Relocation programmes should consider providing agricultural extension services to ensure migrants adapt and cope in new environments...