Rice is Indonesia’s staple food and accounts for large shares of both consumers’ budgetsand total employment. Until recently, Indonesia was the world’s largest importer, butrice import policy is now highly protectionist. Since early 2004, rice imports have beenofficially banned. Advocates...

In recent decades, absolute poverty incidence declined in most countries of Southeast Asia, even though in some of these countries inequality increased at the same time. This paper examines the relationship between these outcomes and the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial...