Poverty and Inequality Analysis
Indonesia has achieved well-documented and drastic improvements in average incomes and in the reduction of poverty. Much research has discussed this progress. This paper adds to the literature with a new perspective. We discuss poverty in Indonesia using the international poverty lines ($1.25, $2 and we add $10 per day).
One of the key challenges on delivering benefits of poverty programs to the poor is to ensure that the beneficiaries of the programs are indeed the targeted population. This paper aims at assessing the implications of poverty dynamics on the accuracy of targeting, using a three-year panel data from Indonesia.
This study presents evidence from Indonesia on how the country’s recent periods of economic growth have contributed to poverty reduction at the regional level, with a particular emphasis on the role of decentralization. Over the past decade Indonesia has made significant progress in reducing poverty, from 23% of the population in 1999 to less than 12% in 2013.
This paper discusses the evolution of education and health poverty in middle-income countries using the case of Indonesia. The paper reviews the long-run empirical research on poverty in Indonesia published over the last decade since the Asian financial crisis.
Increasing inequality is a growing concern is many parts of the world. This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of inequality on economic growth and unemployment in the Indonesian context. Indonesia has experienced a significant and continuing increase in inequality since early 2000s.
