Poverty and Inequality Analysis
This paper attempts to explore deprivations experienced by children. Utilizing national survey dataset collected by BPS and the MODA methodology developed by UNICEF, it shows that children may or may not suffer from deprivation in many dimensions and monetary poverty at the same time. One of the advantages of the MODA approach is the child-focused analysis.
Globally, 2015 was the final year of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the start of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new global development agenda. Nationally, 2015 was the start of the implementation of the Village Law, which mandates the central government to allocate a specific amount of funds to villages so that they can finance their own development programs.
Methodology and Data
The Launching of Poverty and Livelihood Map of Indonesia 2015
This paper reports on a participatory study on poverty in a village in the Kabupaten (District of) Aceh Timur in 2008. Gampong Cahya is a village community almost entirely reliant on agriculture and thus highly vulnerable to economic and environmental shifts such as fuel price rises and agricultural pests.
The SMERU Research Institute underwent three critical transitions during 2014. First, the direct support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to SMERU was formally transferred to one of its programs, the Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI).
