Dr. Shafiq Dhanani, long-term resident in Indonesia, recently published (with co-authors Iyanatul Islam and Anis Chowdhury, both now working with the United Nations system) a book entitled “The Indonesian Labour Market: Changes and Challenges” with Routledge, UK, in August 2009. This book traces the evoluation of the Indonesian labour market between the early 1970s and late 2000s, before coming up with a number of policy-relevant findings to generate employment, increase incomes, and reduce unemployment and poverty in Indonesia.
Dr. Shafiq Dhanani is also the Founder and President Director of MBK-Ventura, the largest Grameen Bank-style microfinance institution in Indonesia. This institution, launched in 2003, now provides small working capital to some 200,000 low-income women and their families in Java.
Dr. Shafiq Dhanani obtained his Masters and D.Phil degrees from Saint Antony’s College, Oxford University, funded through an Aga Khan scholarship. Prior to devoting himself full-time to his microfinance activities in 2005, he worked with the United Nations in Tanzania (UN volunteer) and Somalia (Food and Agriculture Organization) and taught at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, before moving full-time to Indonesia in 1990. From his Indonesian base, he has worked as short-term and long-term economic policy consultant for various Government ministries, through the International Labour Organization, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank in Indonesia as well as neighbouring countries China, Thailand, Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh and Philippines.
http://www.mbk-ventura.com/aboutmbk/organizational-structure/51-board-of-commossioners
http://www.amazon.com/Indonesian-Labour-Market-challenges-Routledge/dp/0415305497
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