Resep Ekonomi Pasca-pandemi: Reformasi untuk Pemulihan

Laporan ini memberikan evaluasi dan program reformasi mulai dari kebijakan transfer dari subsidi, transformasi green economy, technology adoption, kebijakan perdagangan, produktivitas SDM dan berbagai kebijakan yang lebih efisien.

Reformasi kebijakan dapat membantu rumah tangga dan perusahaan mengatasi kesulitan tanpa mengganggu pencapaian tujuan pertumbuhan jangka panjang.

Dalam pengantarnya, laporan Reform for Recovery menyitir dampak perkembangan ekonomi global bagi ekonomi kawasan EAP.

EAP countries are facing to a varying degree a combination of external and self-created problems: a slowing world economy that will dampen external demand; an increasing debt burden, already large in a few countries, exacerbated by increasing interest rates and depreciating exchange rates; and distortionary domestic measures taken by several countries to deal with current difficulties.

Pada bagian penutup laporan, terdapat ringkasan perlunya pengambil kebijakan melakukan serangkaian kebijakan.

Policymakers must consider not only current costs of inefficient instruments, in terms of diverted revenues, diluted assistance, and distorted choices, but also the risk of undermining longer-term goals of growth, security and sustainability.

Recent price and interest rate shocks could reduce EAP growth by 0.4 percentage points; inefficient instruments would soften the impact on current welfare but magnify the growth cost; more efficient intervention and deeper reforms – not just in the three areas discussed above but also in services and factor markets – could even offset the growth impact of recent shocks.

Addressing the infrastructural, institutional, and political constraints would allow a transition to more efficient policy instruments.

Program reformasi ekonomi

Dalam laporan ini, banyak agenda reformasi ekonomi yang ditawarkan, namun jika diringkas paling tidak terdapat empat agenda reformasi yang urgen bagi Indonesia.

Pertama adalah reformasi kebijakan transfer subsidi BBM kepada subsidi langsung atau biasa disebut sebagai income transfer.