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This chapter draws on several household data sets to present four empirical findings about the targeting of these crisis program. Within the large literatures on each of the many aspects of the targeting and benefit incidence of government programs, this chapter has three unique features.
This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions: access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in Indonesia. We find systematic inequality between urban and rural areas, but not between ethnic groups.
The Asian financial crisis and its social aftermath triggered a fundamental reappraisal of the role of social protection in Asia. Existing social protection programmes in many Asian countries were found to be insufficient and not well designed.
This study is an evaluation on how effective various Indonesian social safety net programs have been in reaching their intended target, i.e., the traditionally poor and the newly poor due to the crisis. This is done by assessing the coverage of the programs among the poor as well as how the benefits of the programs have been distributed between the poor and the non-poor.
