Practical lessons in building a platform for policy dialogue : reflections on the Indonesia economic quarterly (English)

Regular economic development updates can contribute significantly to dialogue and debate on key policy issues; this macroeconomics and fiscal management (MFM) note shares practical experience from the World Bank’s production of one such report, the Indonesia... See More + Regular economic development updates can contribute significantly to dialogue and debate on key policy issues; this macroeconomics and fiscal management (MFM) note shares practical experience from the World Bank’s production of one such report, the Indonesia economic quarterly (IEQ). High quality economic updates can be powerful platforms for the World Bank to influence, and inform, public policy debates on development challenges that are occurring at a country, regional, or global level. Measuring the impact of economic updates on the policy discourse, or reforms, can help to build a reinforcing cycle of internal buy-in, and external interest, in the product leading to further interest in contributing to, and consuming, future releases. This brief provides some practical examples of the strategies and processes which can be used to build such updates as platforms for policy dialogue, drawing on the experience of five years of production of the IEQ.  See Less -