tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7338190.post-14606100897293228312008-04-07T09:52:00.005+08:002008-04-07T10:04:15.455+08:00<blockquote>Indonesia's economic growth is <a href="http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/195859,indonesias-economy-to-grow-6-per-cent-in-2008-world.html">forecast</a> at 6 per cent this year, down from 6.4 per cent predicted earlier, in line with a slowing of the country's exports sparked by a world economic slowdown, the World Bank said on Tuesday...<br /><br />However, it predicted Indonesia's economy growth would rise to 6.4 per cent in 2009...<br /><br />Despite the slowing global economy, in 2007 Indonesia's economic growth accelerated to a 10-year high of 6.3 per cent, the World Bank said.<br /><br />"This growth rate reduced (Indonesia's) poverty rate from 17.8 per cent (in 2006) to 16.6 per cent (in 2007), based on the government's poverty line," it said.<br /><br />The growth rate also reversed the recent trend toward jobless growth by causing unemployment to fall from 10.3 per cent to 9.1 per cent.</blockquote> <br />This is good news; and it is from the World Bank, which often offers gloomy prediction of Indonesia's economic growth. <br /><br />I am not a macroeconomist, but I am willing to bet that the economy this year will grow faster than 6 percent, maybe close to last year's growth rate of 6.3 percent.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7338190-1460610089729322831?l=sarapanekonomi.blogspot.com'/></div>Rasyad A. Parindurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14528066707939260315noreply@blogger.com4