Elias Karakitsos is Chairman of Global Economic Research (LLC), Director and Partner of Twintop Consultants (trading FFAs in the shipping market); and an Associate Member of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, University of Cambridge, UK. He was at Imperial College, UK, for nearly 25-years, where he held the chair of economics and was Head of Economics for ten-years. He has act…
With a growing population and increasing incomes, investment growth in Indonesia will depend on the country's domestic consumer and its manufacturing industries, thereby providing a stimulus to petrochemicals consumption. Additionally, we expect progress by the government in its efforts to improve the business environment. This should translate into increased investment in petrochemicals plants…
Indonesia's potential is indisputable and the country is poised to play an ever-increasing role in the Region/world. However, the dreams may be clouded if its infrastructure is not sufficently developed. To develop, every nation needs energy and Indonesia needs a comprehensive policy that not only addresses the subsidies but, more importantly, also accelerates the developments of fossil and ren…